MDOT to enhance safety with new weather-sensing system
Contact:
Bob Felt, MDOT Office of Communications, feltb@michigan.gov 989-731-5090
Agency:
Transportation
May 18, 2010 -- The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will soon have a new way to obtain roadway information electronically that will improve safety and maintenance operations in the region. Beginning this month, MDOT will install new Road Weather Information System (RWIS) technology with electronic sensors that will provide road crews with important weather information along select roadways in northern lower Michigan.
"We will have 12 different locations up and running in our region this summer," said Scott Thayer, interim North Region engineer. "RWIS will help us better manage our resources and keep us on the cutting edge of maintenance innovations. This technology is designed to help save money and improve efficiencies of our maintenance operations."
The RWIS sensors, installed along the roadside, provide data on air and subsurface temperatures, wind speed and direction, precipitation type and intensity, visibility, relative humidity, and barometric pressures.
MDOT will be installing this new system in the following locations: US-31 and M-115; US-131 at M-55 (Exit 180); US-10 and Stiles Road; US-131 at US-10 (Exit 153); M-72 and Williamsburg Road; US-31 near Burgess Road; I-75 at Marlette Road (Exit 270); northbound I-75 at the Grayling Rest Area; US-127 at M-55 (Exit 194); I-75 at Cook Road (Exit 212); I-75 at Mackinaw Highway (Exit 337); and I-75 at C-58 (Exit 301).
MDOT says: Construction work zones need your undivided attention.
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