The City of Newark has won first place in the “Better Mousetrap Award” for finding a way to get winter brine on streets at a reasonable cost.
Jason Winterling from the City of Newark won the award for the conversion of a former street-sweeping truck to a flatbed vehicle that can apply the brine, which is applied before snow falls.
The award was announced by the Delaware Center for Transportation at the University of Delaware.
The center is part of a partnership among state universities, state departments of transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration.
The national partnership has 58 centers throughout the United States with primary missions to promote training, technology transfer, and research project implementation at state and local transportation agencies.
Many centers have undergraduate and graduate students in their programs.
