In this study, the average operating speed was used to validate the two approaches, as well as to analyze the effect of adverse winter weather conditions (snow) on highway driver behavior.
Along a snow-swept highway, an oil pipeline with a capacity of one million barrels a day is running at a relative trickle.
As leaders were driving about 100 miles to a meeting with supporters, authorities stopped the militants on the remote, snow-lined highway and captured the group.
Still, officials seemed determined to avoid a repeat of the debacle of December 2010 when cold and a few inches of snow closed highways, brought 4,000 flights to a halt and snarled global air traffic.
Frederick Dorst, 66, of Oak Ridge, N.J., was killed when he lost control of his car on a snow-glazed highway in the Passaic County community of West Milford at 6 30 a.m., and crashed into a utility pole, the West Milford police reported.
HETAOCUN, China — Compared with some of the more spectacular recent traffic jams in China, among them a 60-mile snarl last summer that paralyzed a major artery outside Beijing for two weeks, the thousands of travelers who spent the night trapped on a snow-coated highway in southwest Guizhou Province on Monday did not even warrant a mention in the local news media.
In western Wisconsin, an articulated lorry slid off a snow-covered highway and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person.
Zaslow was driving on a snow-covered highway in northern Michigan when he lost control and was hit by a truck.
In South Dakota, the Highway Patrol worked through the night to rescue people stranded in their vehicles on snow-clogged highways.
Once inside the park, snowmobilers travel snow-packed highways that are the main corridors for bison, which find it hard to negotiate Yellowstone's deep snows.
