Throughout the seasons, weather can impact your operations — from plowing and chemical applications to mowing and striping. It influences what you do and where and when you do it. Improperly timed activities can create unsafe driving conditions, travel delays, operational inefficiencies, and have significant, negative impacts on your labor, fuel, salt, and chemicals budgets. To help you better manage these challenges, Schneider Electric offers cutting-edge Maintenance Decision Support Solutions (MDSS). MDSS technology MDSS is a decision support tool that integrates relevant road weather forecasts, coded maintenance rules of practice, and maintenance resource data to provide you with recommended road treatment strategies. With MDSS, you can easily analyze current and forecasted weather and pavement conditions to determine what to expect on your roadways in the near future. It does so by incorporating winter road maintenance best practices and strategies appropriate for your specific local climate and road maintenance resources, helping you make the best decisions possible. MDSS also provides road maintenance treatment recommendations for specific routes during winter events, helping you to proactively mitigate dangerous road conditions.

1. Maintenance Decision
Support Solutions
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2. Maintenance Decision
Support Solutions
Throughout the seasons, weather can impact your operations —
from plowing and chemical applications to mowing and striping. It
influences what you do and where and when you do it. Improperly
timed activities can create unsafe driving conditions, travel delays,
operational inefficiencies, and have significant, negative impacts
on your labor, fuel, salt, and chemicals budgets. To help you better
manage these challenges, Schneider Electric offers cutting-edge
Maintenance Decision Support Solutions (MDSS).
MDSS technology
MDSS is a decision support tool that integrates relevant road weather
forecasts, coded maintenance rules of practice, and maintenance resource
data to provide you with recommended road treatment strategies.
With MDSS, you can easily analyze current and forecasted weather and
pavement conditions to determine what to expect on your roadways in
the near future. It does so by incorporating winter road maintenance best
practices and strategies appropriate for your specific local climate and road
maintenance resources, helping you make the best decisions possible. MDSS
also provides road maintenance treatment recommendations for specific
routes during winter events, helping you to proactively mitigate dangerous
road conditions.
With MDSS information, you can improve activities, such as:
• Chemical applications
• Plowing
• Mowing
• Striping
• Spraying
The benefits of MDSS
The benefits of road weather management strategies include:
• Improved safety due to reduced crash risk
• Increased mobility due to restored capacity, delay reductions, and more
uniform traffic flow
• Increased productivity due to reduced labor, treatment materials, and
equipment costs
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Nearly one-fourth of non-recurrent highway delays
are weather related and contribute to 500 million
vehicle-hours per delay each year.

3. Specific MDSS offerings
To best meet your needs, we offer two MDSS
packages — point-based and route-based. With
them, you can better determine where specific
routes will be affected by weather and when those
specific routes will need attention. Depending on
the level of service, the capabilities can include:
• Treatment recommendations for pavement
forecasts at RWIS points
• Specific treatment recommendations for before,
during, and after each storm
• Hourly forecasts up to 36 hours
• Up to 10 treatment plans based on
your operations
• Truck icons in the forecast table to alert you
of each hour that treatment is recommended
• Route-based pavement forecasts and
treatment recommendations
• Customized parameters, such as best practice
application types/rates and available chemicals
• Intelligent timing of when to apply treatments to
keep the road surface free from snow and ice
• Hourly, route-based forecast animations for
pavement conditions, pavement temperatures,
bridge temperatures, and snow depth on roads
Part of a complete solutions suite
Our MDSS solutions are just one component in our
suite of transportation-focused weather solutions.
We also offer MxVision WeatherSentry®
Online, a
complete weather decision support system that
provides weather forecasts, patented weather
management tools, and around-the-clock online
consultations with professional meteorologists. Our
RoadCast®
frost and ice forecasts are the basis for
road and bridge treatment recommendations that
support effective anti-icing programs.
In addition, Schneider Electric’s Total View™
solution is a decision management tool that
provides everything you need — RWIS stations
and data management, integrated into MxVision
WeatherSentry Online for streamlined, informed
decision making.
All of these solutions are designed to help
you increase road safety, reduce travel times,
operate more efficiently, and better protect
your bottom line.
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Detailed atmospheric and pavement forecasts are
available every hour, with recommended treatments
based on a client’s standard maintenance best practices.
A 36-hour animation of forecast pavement conditions
indicates areas requiring treatment. Graphic animations
are also available for additional scenarios.

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January 2014