AN ORIGINAL APPROACH FOR CHOOSING AND DEVELOPING DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT TOOLS FOR WINTER MAINTENANCE
J-J Roussel, J Tanguay · New Challenges for Winter Road Service. XIth International Winter Road CongressWorld Road Association - PIARC · 2002
This paper describes how, three years ago, the ministere des Transports du Quebec decided to create a network of road weather information systems throughout its provincial network and the associated problems encountered. With the aid of a French expert, the Infrastructure Operations Support Division of the ministere des Transports developed an original approach. Beginning with a real needs analysis of the operational decision-makers, this approach is directed at optimizing the ensemble of decision-making tools. Five activities: organization; training; weather forecasting; mobile road weather information systems; and stationary read weather information systems are discussed.