 Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Partnering with Construction and Maintenance Contractors to Achieve Environmental Protection Session of the 2001 Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia
May 1, 2001
This paper overviews the selection, design, implementation and performance of Canada's first fixed automated anti-icing spray system installation for a highway/roadway application. Installed in the fall of 2000 on the northbound 416/401-interchange structure, the system has been in service for the entire winter of 2000/2001.
The construction of this new bridge was completed in September of 1999. During the first winter of operation a number of weather related accidents occurred on the structure. For a number of years the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario (MTO) has been investigating anti-icing and (Advanced) Road Weather Information Systems ((A)RWIS) as independent approaches and systems to complement the established levels of service for roads during winter storms.
Based on its own research and the experience of other agencies, MTO believed that there was an opportunity to significantly reduce the potential for icing on the structure. This could be achieved by remotely sensing potential frost and ice and automatically applying a liquid deicing chemical before it actually formed. The FAST system continuously monitors conditions on the structure and based on the detection of critical threshold parameters it automatically sprays the chemical just in advance of icing conditions. The structure in question is a 165m super-elevated, high speed, freeway-to-freeway ramp with a design speed of 130km/hr and a 3000 AADT. Since putting the system into service there have been no weather related accidents.
The Ministry and its maintenance contractor have also taken this ......
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