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As part of the Winter Maintenance Concept Vehicle Project, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is developing a GIS application, referred to as "Wiscplow." This software system, which is intended to help transportation agencies measure performance of winter operations, integrates and analyzes environmental, equipment status, and materials usage data coming from the vehicles with spatial databases of roadway centerlines, attributed with roadway patrol sections, route systems, number-of-lanes, and functional class. Manually-entered data, such as storm event types and durations, labor and equipment cost rates, and vehicle equipment configurations are also used in the computation of performance measures. Wiscplow outputs include reports and decision management tools (e.g., charts, graphs, and maps) that show values of, and relationships among, computed performance measures.
Before participating counties can use Wiscplow successfully, several impediments must be overcome. Currently, Wiscplow developers at UW-M are refining computational problems associated with the tool.
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