1 INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Driving Indiana’s Economic Growth Seymour District Highway Operations Snow and Ice Alphabet Soup AVL, MDSS and MDC Use in Indiana Anthony K. McClellan P.E. Highway Operations Director April 15, 2008 INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Driving Indiana’s Economic Growth Seymour District Highway Operations Snow and Ice Operations
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Snow and Ice Alphabet SoupAVL, MDSS and MDC Use in
Indiana
Anthony K. McClellan P.E.Highway Operations Director
April 15, 2008
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Snow and Ice Operations
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Central Office and 6 Districts Make up INDOT
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Thunder
Over
Louisville
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Innovations at Seymour and around the State
• New Snow Plows• Anti-Icing• Safe Lane Application• MDSS• AVL and MDC (Mobile Data Collector)
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Some Southern Indiana Hill Country in the Middle of Winter…
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Just remember in the middle of winter – it could always be worse…Unless you’re in Colorado!
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
New Snow Plows with Squeegees
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Anti-Icing Before the Storm
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Brine Makers
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Our first attempt at Anti-Icing!I can’t believe I found this in a
yard sale in Kentucky!
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Cream Puff!
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Safelane
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
Alphabet Soup
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
MDSS
Maintenance Decision Support System
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INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDriving Indiana’s Economic Growth
Seymour District
Highway Operations
• Decision logic system that integrates current weather, maintenance and road condition information with forecasted weather and road surface conditions to evaluate and recommend treatment options
• Transforms huge volumes of weather and maintenance information into better decision support tools
• Objective – provide guidance to achieve more effective use of maintenance resources
What is MDSS?
WeatherObservations
WeatherObservations
WeatherForecastSystem
WeatherForecastSystem
RoadConditionAnalysis &
Forecast (RCAF)System
RoadConditionAnalysis &
Forecast (RCAF)System
RCAFSite Characterization
System
RCAFSite Characterization
System
MDSSProcessing &
IntegrationSystem
MDSSProcessing &
IntegrationSystem
DeliverySystem
DeliverySystem
UserInterface
UserInterface
MDSS Processing ModelMDSS Processing ModelMDSS Processing Model