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2008 Midwest States’ Meeting

2008 Midwest States’ Meeting. Send Money!. April 22-23, 2008. IDOT 2007-2008 Statistics: 42,872 Lane Miles 1,153 Snow Routes 1,748 Trucks 836,761 Tons of Salt (5 Yr Avg. = 427,172 Tons) Total Annual Cost = $86,111,168 (5 Yr Avg. = $39,965,844). Blending/Injection System.

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2008 Midwest States’ Meeting

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  1. 2008 Midwest States’ Meeting Send Money! April 22-23, 2008

  2. IDOT 2007-2008 Statistics: • 42,872 Lane Miles • 1,153 Snow Routes • 1,748 Trucks • 836,761Tons of Salt(5 Yr Avg. = 427,172 Tons) • Total Annual Cost = $86,111,168 (5 Yr Avg. = $39,965,844)

  3. Blending/Injection System

  4. Shaker Wipers

  5. Heated Wiper Fluid

  6. Alaska Plow

  7. 14’ Plow

  8. 14’ Plow • Plow Width Plow Angle/Clearing Path • At 0° 35° 25° 20° • 10 8.2 9.1 9.4 • 11 9.0 10.0 10.3 • 129.810.9 11.3 • 14 11.512.7 13.2 • Advantages: • Reduce the number of trips: • Reduce the # of salt application opportunities. • Saves fuel and wear on equipment. • Safer! • Less exposure to traffic • Don’t have to crowd centerline • Keep truck on the pavement • Plow without treating in first lane. • Plow should be on the centerline. • 12’ plow will leave approximately 1’ of unplowed pavement on the outside. 2’

  9. Dual Spinners

  10. Increased Prewet Amounts

  11. Increased PrewetAmounts

  12. Fixed Automated Spray Technology (FAST)

  13. Currently Illinois has 99 functioning RWIS sites. Most are located in the northern 2/3 of the state.

  14. Of those 99, 59 are owned by IDOT. The others belong to the Tollways and Chicago.

  15. All sites are accessed through a dial-up interface. And data is transferred to collectors in each district.

  16. That data is sent to the RWIS Servers in Springfield. There are two servers: one for road weather and the other for climatic weather.

  17. Weather Forecasting

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