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This state of the practice survey focuses on unpaved road management with an emphasis on chemical treatments as a means to control fugitive road dust. This task was conducted in conjunction with the 2010 National Scan of Best Practices for Chemical Treatments on Unpaved Roads sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration's Central Federal Lands Highway Division which culminated in the Unpaved Road Dust Management, A Successful Practitioner's Handbook (Jones et al. 2013).
While the Steering Committee (see Jones et al. 2013, Appendix A) determined that the scan tour itself should strive to include sites that depict practices worthy of replication, the survey could and should capture a broader state of the practice. The survey language, therefore, was designed to obtain information on whether agencies use or do not use chemical treatments as an unpaved road maintenance strategy. Furthermore, it was deemed important to understand why practitioners do not use chemical treatments in order to better address the barriers to treating unpaved roads in the future. In addition, the survey was a tool for identifying potential host sites for the national scan tour.
The survey questions were developed by consensus of the Steering Committee during conference calls and email correspondence. The survey was exempt from the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects at Montana State University.
Questions were loaded into and formatted with an online survey tool which also served as the survey response data collector. The target audience of unpaved road managers, practitioners and researchers were invited to participate in the survey via email invitation (i.e., listserv or direct personalized mail), internet-based promotion on relevant news sites, and hard copy promotional cards displayed at a relevant conference (i.e., Transportation Research Board).
All prospective survey takers were directed to a landing page at www.roaddustinstitute.com (cached version of inactive historical website) which described the intention of the survey and who was conducting it. If, after reading the background information, the prospective survey taker chose to participate, they were directed to the actual survey at www.surveymonkey.com. The survey was available online from December 8, 2009 to February 4, 2010. Survey invitation reminders were sent out periodically to maximize participation.
Screenshots of the survey questions and format follow in Chapter 2, with the Results section in Chapter 3.
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