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Episode 109: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - No Boundaries Aug 02, 2024

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The 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather gives organizations working in this space an opportunity to showcase their efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This episode features the No Boundaries Pooled Fund Study.
This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Jim Fox at james.fox@state.co.us
Kirsten Seeber with CTC and Associates at kirsten.seeber@ctcandassociates.com
Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops
Visit the No Boundaries website at:
https://maintainroads.org/

Sign up for email notifications on future episodes and other communications associated with winter maintenance and winter weather management by clicking on subscribe on the Talkin' Winter Ops website at TalkinWinterOps.com
Thanks for listening in and stay safe out there!

Episode 108: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - MDSS Aug 02, 2024

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The 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather gives organizations working in this space an opportunity to showcase their efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This episode features the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Pooled Fund Study.
This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Dave Huft at Dave.Huft@state.sd.us
Shawn Truelson with DTN at shawn.truelson@dtn.com
Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops

Visit the MDSS Pooled Fund Study website at:
https://mdss.dtn.com/

Episode 107: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - Clear Roads Aug 01, 2024

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The 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather gives organizations working in this space an opportunity to showcase their efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This episode features the Clear Roads Pooled Fund Study.
This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Craig Bargfrede at craig.bargfrede@iowadot.us
Greg Waidley with CTC and Associates at greg.waidley@ctcandassociates.com

Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops

Visit the Clear Roads Pooled Fund Study website at:
https://www.clearroads.org/

Episode 106: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - Aurora Aug 01, 2024

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The 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather gives organizations working in this space an opportunity to showcase their efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This episode features the Aurora Pooled Fund Study.
This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Jason Norville at janorville@pa.gov
Zach Hans with Iowa State University at zhans@iastate.edu
Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops
Visit the Aurora Pooled Fund Study website at:
https://aurora-program.org/

Episode 105: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - Winter Weather Management TSP Aug 01, 2024

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This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Brad Darr at bdarr@nd.gov

Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops

Visit the Winter Weather Management TSP website at:
https://transportation.org/winter-weather-management/

Episode 104: 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather - Maintenance Operations TWG Aug 01, 2024

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The 2024 National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather gives organizations working in this space an opportunity to showcase their efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation. This episode features the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group of the Committee on Maintenance.
This series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program.
For more information you can reach out to:
Brad Darr at bdarr@nd.gov or
Emily McGraw at eomcgraw@ncdot.gov

Watch the video and presentation along with all the other briefings on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Talkinwinterops

Episode 103: 2024 National Briefing Introduction Jul 31, 2024

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Each year, in cooperation with the AASHTO Committee on Maintenance, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program we sponsor a National Briefing on winter maintenance and road weather activities. These briefings give organizations workin gin this space an opportunity to showcase their work for groups and agencies providing winter service. Over the next 16 episodes you get to learn about these organizations and their work and how, quite possibly, it may impact how you are performing winter maintenance.
These presentations are also available on our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@TalkinWinterOps
I hope you get an opportunity to listen in on all these episodes.

Episode 102: The new Guide for Snow and Ice Control Operations Jul 17, 2024

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The Guide for Snow and Ice Control was first published back in 1999 and with the exception of an addendum has remained unchanged since then. Since then there has been a vast amount of research, field trials, and advancements in winter maintenance and road weather technologies. In 2018 a project was launched through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program to rewrite the Guide incorporating the latest state of the practice. The new guide has been produced, accepted by AASHTO’s Committee on Maintenance, and is in the process of being published by AASHTO as the AASHTO Guide for Snow and Ice Control.

While we don’t know exactly when the new Guide will be released, Brad Darr, Chair of the Committee on Maintenance - Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, John Habermann, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Principal Investigator for the project, and Diana Clonch, Subject Matter Expert supporting the project give us some insight into the new Guide, what you can expect to see in it, and how it came to be.

For more information on this project and the new Guide you can reach out to Brad Darr at bdarr@nd.gov John Habermann at j-habermann@tti.tamu.edu and/or Diana Clonch at dwclonch@gmail.com

Episode 101: Clear Roads for clear roads Jun 20, 2024

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In 2004 a group of 5 states got together and pooled their money to test winter maintenance materials, equipment and methods for use by highway maintenance operations. The program has grown to 40 states and amassed a large collection of research and training. The Clear Roads Pooled Fund Program is funded through a $25,000 annual contribution per subscribing state and is eligible for SP&R federal pass through dollars.
Craig Bargfrede, Winter Maintenance Administrator for the Iowa DOT also serves as the current Chair of the Clear Roads Pooled Fund Study and is our guest to explain the program.
For more information you can check out the Clear Roads website at clear roads.org or reach out to Craig Bargfrede at craig.bargfrede@iowadot.us or Greg Waidley at greg.waidley@ctcandassociates.com
Listen in as Craig talks about the Clear Roads program and how it works to clear roads.

Episode 100: Where The Weather Meets The Road, revisited Apr 30, 2024

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Twenty years ago in 2004 “Where The Weather Meets The Road” was published by the National Academy of Science and it proposed a research roadmap over the next 20-years to advance road weather services. Now in 2024 the future described in Where The Weather Meets The Road is here Paul Pisano, Chair of the TRB Road Weather Committee and Dr. Gina Eosco, Division Chief, Science, Technology, and Society for the Weather Program Office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were both involved in this report and are here to discuss where we were, where we’ve come, and what the future might hold.

Check out the report at this link Where The Weather Meets The Road
You can continue the discussion of what you think the future of road weather management holds with Paul Pisano or Dr. Gina Eosco

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