Talkin Winter Ops

When your agency is responsible for vast amounts of infrastructure and performs hundreds of activities with thousands of employees having a robust management information system is imperative. On this episode Michael Middleton of the Missouri Department of Transportation and Project Director for MoDOT Management System talks about the development and implementation of their new maintenance management system.

Easy to input data for the employees, easy to extract information for managers, this system is a one-stop shop for employees. It’s not just maintenance activity based, this system includes a safety management component focusing on employee safety. This MMS has become such a powerful tool for the agency that it has become the MODOT Management System
Chapter marks
0:00 Intro with Becky
4:10 Kicking off the project / system requirements
9:55 COTS vs develop in house?
18:31 Roll out - champions
22:54 initial system functions
28:51 Safety module
40:28 Additional resources-videos
43:44 wrap up
For more information on the MoDOT Management System contact the Project Director, Michael Middleton at [email protected]
or Check out these MODOT videos on the MODOT Management System
MMS Phase 1 – Documentation and Dashboards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPBFRuxwlA

MMS Phase 2 - Work Plans and Budget module.
https://youtu.be/lcOjUlCxe1E

Safety Management Module
https://www.youtube.com/embed/BZJMQ8evSco?rel=0%20

Story Board for Safety Module
https://youtu.be/kkNf06eGDro

New Incident reporting module
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1Edm6EShs&t=3s

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APWA’s Western Snow and Ice Conference and Snow Roadeo is one of the premier events in the world of winter maintenance and it happens every year in Loveland, Colorado. In addition to the indoor activities and huge equipment and vendor display, hundreds of operators put their mastery of equipment operation on display at the National Snow Roadeo. Pete Adler and Tim Brady join us to discuss this event and particulars of the Snow Roadeo.

For more information about this event head over to their website at https://www.westernsnowandice.com/ or you can contact Pete Adler at [email protected] or Tim Brady [email protected]

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4th National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather give organizations working in the severe weather and maintenance operations space an opportunity to showcase their recent efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This briefing features the PIARC Winter Service Technical Committee
This briefing series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program - SICOP.
Watch the video at this link:
https://youtu.be/De8zNEfaFHo
For more information contact:
Peter Nutz [email protected]
Visit the Winter Service website:
https://www.piarc.org/en/PIARC-knowledge-base-Roads-and-Road-Transportation/Road-Safety-Sustainability/Winter-Service

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Management of salt and salt reduction isn’t solely on the shoulders of maintenance operations. In many cases salt use is necessary to address problematic areas that maybe could have been mitigated with a more winter sensitive design. On this episode were visiting with Connie Fortin, Todd Hubmer, and Chris Chromy of Bolton & Menk on their approach with a new perspective on designs to optimize winter operations and minimizing the need for salt.

Designing new facilities or retrofitting existing facilities is the result of hundreds of tradeoffs and compromises with the goal of reaching the optimal sub-optimal solution. Long term operational costs of a highway facilities can include pavement maintenance, rehabilitation schedules, safety benefits, and other costs but seldom include the costs of winter maintenance like chemicals, equipment, and level of effort to provide a resilient network. Maximizing solar radiation, minimizing drifting snow, and eliminating the repeat offenders where melt water refreezes can dramatically reduce the need for chemicals throughout the life of the facilities.

For more information about winter sensitive design considerations you can contact Connie Fortin, Senior Project Manager at [email protected] , Todd Hubmer, Principal Water Resource Engineer at [email protected], or Chris Chromy, Senior Principal Transportation Engineer at [email protected]
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Chloride use is a blessing and a curse
4:03 unique things to consider in design
7:50 The maintenance worker has to live with the design we give them
11:53 Design possibilities for existing infrastructure
13:18 Vegetation options
14:28 A different thought process
17:45 Geometric considerations
20:40 Safety considerations
22:30 Challenges
28:02 Advise to owners contemplating a design in winter regions
33.14 Listening vs understanding
35:28 Signoff

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Not all pavements are equal when it comes to winter maintenance. Different pavements and pavement designs respond differently to winter maintenance strategies. A recent research project looked at the various performance aspects of open graded, ultra thin permeable friction course surfaces that have been used by transportation agencies for many years. While they have lots of advantages, in the wintertime they tend to freeze more rapidly, deicing and anti-icing chemicals drain off more readily, and they tend to retain snow and ice for longer periods of time. In this episode we’re going to look into winter maintenance operations on permeable friction courses with Michelle Akin formerly of Washington State University and Laura Fay from the Western Transportation Institute.

Check out the report “Understanding the chemical and mechanical performance of snow and ice control agents on porous or permeable pavements” by clicking on the link https://clearroads.org/project/12-03/

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