Scope: This committee is concerned with providing winter maintenance professionals with up to date information on materials, equipment, technologies, techniques, and measures through research, technology transfer and education. This includes fundamental aspects of ice adhesion, heat transfer and fog control, as they influence roadway operations and the safety, mobility and control of traffic under adverse winter conditions; management of snow and ice removal; performance measures to determine and evaluate levels of service; snow and ice removal equipment; training needs of snow-fighting personnel, including worker safety; materials for preventing or breaking the bond of snow and ice to pavements; materials storage and use; environmental impacts of winter maintenance operations; road weather forecasting; snow accumulation and drift prevention; drainage of melting snow and ice; and, pavement and bridge heating and automated anti-icing systems.

John P. Burkhardt, Chair

Frank N. Lisle, TRB Staff Representative