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Appendix A - Survey Instrument
Pages 57-58

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... Q4A: List the factors or situations that you have experienced or think contribute to the sense of urgency to complete snow removal operations. Q4B: From your perspective, how can the internal and external pressures associated with resolving or completing winter snow removal operations be reduced or minimized?
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... Visual cues that drivers normally use to navigate on airport runways and taxiways may be obscured or take on a different appearance. Q5A: What are problems that you or your personnel have experienced while engaged in snow plowing, brooming, deicing, fog or other winter operation that have caused reduced visibility, seeing where you are, or difficulty in traversing the runways, taxiways, and ramps?
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