New Clear Roads Meeting Materials Posted
Documents from Clear Roads’ spring meeting, including the agenda, budget and minutes, are now available on the Clear Roads Meetings page.
News & Events
New Clear Roads Research: Resources for Communicating With the Public
Providing clear and consistent messaging can help the public understand why and how states perform winter maintenance. This project developed a Public Service Announcements Library that houses a variety of videos and messages agencies can use.
New Clear Roads Research: Tracking Chloride Runoff Through Different Soils
Understanding how chloride deicers move, disperse in, or migrate through different types of soils is critical to helping maintenance managers identify sensitive areas and adjust chloride applications to mitigate environmental impacts.
Clear Roads’ National Survey Compiles 11th Year of Winter Maintenance Data
Clear Roads has just published its 11th Annual Survey of State Winter Maintenance Data, which compiles winter resources, material and cost data from 39 states for the 2024-2025 winter season. The spreadsheet includes all submitted data, as well as calculated statistics, winter severity index data, and a United States map that displays many of these metrics. … Read more
New episodes of the Talkin’ Winter Ops podcast
Check out the most recent episode of the Talkin’ Winter Ops podcast!
New Clear Roads Research: Leveraging the Deicing Benefits of Solar Radiation
To help winter maintenance managers understand how sunlight affects melt rates, prioritize vegetation management, and communicate the benefits of roadside vegetation management to the public, this Clear Roads project produced a vegetation management guide.
Winter Maintenance News Roundup
Check out the recent news on winter maintenance from around the country.
Winter Maintenance at the 2026 TRB Meeting
Clear Roads has prepared a listing of technical sessions and posters related to winter maintenance that were presented at the 2026 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. The list includes links to more than two dozen papers and posters on a wide range of winter maintenance topics, including materials, equipment, technology, and performance management.
Budgets and Timelines Added to Clear Roads RFPs
Estimated budgets and timelines for the seven new Clear Roads research projects have just been published.
New Clear Roads RFPs: Proposals due Dec. 16
Clear Roads is currently soliciting investigator proposals for seven new research projects. For all projects, the deadline to submit proposals is Tuesday, December 16, 2025.