Episode 18: Just what has SICOP been up to? The 2018 SICOP Year in Review

02/07/19 • 34 min

SICOP exists to support member states in fulfilling their winter maintenance mission. As one of AASHTOs Technical Service Programs we are supported through voluntary contributions made by state DOTs. Throughout the year SICOP performs many different activities in this cause. In this episode, SICOP Steering Committee Chair Steve Lund from the Minnesota DOT talks about the accomplishments of the program in 2018.
Check out the 2018 Year In Review on the SICOP webpage at
https://sicop.transportation.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2019/02/2018-year-in-review.pdf

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Episode 17: You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Agencies have been performing winter maintenance in one manner or another for a hundred years. Measuring how well we’ve been doing is a much harder proposition largely because no two storms are alike and the fact that they come and go so quickly and often overlap. Our two guests on this episode are no strangers to winter maintenance; Steve Lund is the State Maintenance Engineer for the Minnesota DOT and Caleb Dobbins is the State Maintenance Engineer for the State of New Hampshire. Both states have well developed programs to measure how well they perform winter service. Listen in as we talk about levels of service and performance metrics in use today and how they are used to manage winter maintenance operations.

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Episode 19: When the snow hits the fan - Emergency operations methodology

Maintenance is used to responding to severe weather but when the storm escalates into a state of emergency maintenance becomes just one of the players addressing the event. Clear Roads commissioned a project - Emergency Operations Methodology for Extreme Winter Storm Events. SICOP Talks Winter Ops with the Principle Investigator, Jim Sullivan from the University of Vermont - Transportation Research Center and the best practices he uncovered during this project.

For more information about Clear Roads and this project head over to the Clear Roads website at http://clearroads.org

Read more about Jim Sullivan and his work at the University of Vermont - Transportation Research Center at https://www.uvm.edu/cems/profiles/james-sullivan