1 How Much Is the Safety and Mobility Benefit of Winter Road Maintenance? Dr. Liping Fu Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext 33984 Fax: (519) 725-5441 Email: lfu@uwaterloo.ca Dr. Taimur Usman Research Associate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada (519) 888 4567 ext. 31170 Email: tusman@engmail.uwaterloo.ca Dr. Luis F. Miranda-Moreno Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Applied Mechanics McGill University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 Phone: (514) 398-6589 Fax: (514) 398-7361 Email: luis.miranda-moreno@mcgill.ca Max S. Perchanok Research Coordinator, Construction and Operations Branch Ontario Ministry of Transportation 301 St. Paul Street St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 7R4 Email: Max.Perchanok@ontario.ca Heather McClintock Maintenance Standards Engineer, Design and Contract Standards Office Ontario Ministry of Transportation 301 St. Paul Street St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 7R4 Email: Heather.McClintock@ontario.ca Paper prepared for presentation at the Innovations and Opportunities in Construction Methods and Practices Session of the 2012 Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada Fredericton, New Brunswick