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Winter Maintenance Of Akron Roadways, Kayla Hillegass
Winter Maintenance Of Akron Roadways, Kayla Hillegass
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The city of Akron experiences several hundred crashes each winter season due to winter road and weather conditions. The winter maintenance practices of the city follow a guide by the Salt Institute that uses a combination of plowing and salting to clear the roads. This paper provides an understanding of winter maintenance from its beginnings to present day and will discuss how certain practices came to be. Looking at three other cities across the United States with similar characteristics in size or snowfall amount show many similarities with a few new concepts that Akron can consider (e.g., better communication via …