How to Participate

Clear Roads is an open, cooperative research program aimed at funding highly relevant research to meet the needs of winter operations professionals around the world. This is an ongoing pooled fund project that proposes and funds new research projects or related activities on an annual basis. An expanding membership will help maintain and strengthen this ongoing commitment to real-world winter maintenance research.

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All interested agencies are asked to make a $25,000 annual commitment to Clear Roads. The project funds cover investigator work, administrative management of the pooled fund, and travel for Technical Advisory Committee members to committee meetings. States may use 100% federal funds to contribute to Clear Roads.

To make your financial commitment to Clear Roads, visit the Transportation Pooled Fund Web site at www.pooledfund.org or contact Kim Linsenmayer.

Clear Roads is now pooled fund project TPF-5(218), led by Minnesota DOT. Wisconsin DOT led Clear Roads from 2004-2009 under TPF-5(092).

Member Benefits

Your agency's Technical Advisory Committee representative will:

* Help select which projects get funded
* Evaluate technical proposals from academic and private-sector investigators
* Oversee the research projects
* Meet with experts from around the country on winter maintenance issues
* Travel to TAC meetings with expenses paid by the pooled fund

For complete information about travel reimbursements, voting, and other operational aspects of the pooled fund, see the Clear Roads Operating Procedures.

Financial participation in a pooled fund has a big impact. One contribution leverages large amounts of research money to help address national and international winter maintenance challenges.