U.S. cities and states spend north of $4 billion every year on snow operations. And they’re actually getting much better at managing snow thanks to increasingly precise GPS tracking and new tech that facilitates the plow rollout. Municipalities are achieving new levels of response and saving money as a result; Syracuse, which averages 126 inches of snow per year, put GPS tracking and dashcams in its plows starting in 2021, which aids in mapping the response. New York City developed its own in-house system called BladeRunner to analyze its plow-based GPS data. Edison, New Jersey, cut spending on salt and brine by 35 percent and insurance payouts by 60 percent thanks to videos that can prove its plows aren’t usually at fault for collisions with motorists.
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