Benefit-cost analysis of weather information for winter maintenance: A case study

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2055, 2008, Pages 119-127

  Strong, Christopher ^a   Shi, Xianming ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST ESTIMATING; INFORMATION USE; LOSSES; MAINTENANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVERSE WEATHER; BENEFIT/COST ANALYSIS; CASE-STUDIES; CONDITION; ECONOMIC LOSS; MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS; SURFACE TRANSPORTATION; UTAH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONS; WEATHER INFORMATION; WINTER MAINTENANCE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 56749158883     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2055-14     Document Type: Article

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