I am Wilf Nixon, I am an expert in winter highway maintenance. I provide training, speaking, and consulting.

• Wilf started his research in winter highway maintenance in the late 1980’s working initially on ways of improving snow plow performance.
• Wilf has conducted research for a number of federal and state agencies, and has covered topics relating to plow and cutting edge performance, optimal chemical usage, snow fence design, plow and truck instrumentation, optimal uses of novel technologies in winter maintenance, and information management and decision making in winter maintenance.
• Wilf has written over 100 papers and reports on his research, and has made numerous presentations around the world.
• Wilf has worked on numerous committees and panels relating to winter maintenance at both the National and International level. He chaired the TRB committee on winter maintenance from 1998 to 2004 and has been a member of that committee from 1995 to 2008. He is currently an Emeritus member of that committee. He has also chaired the TRB Task Force on surface weather and transportation (from 2005 to 2008) and was chair (2008-14) of the committee that was formed as a result of the task force (AH010: Surface Transportation and Weather).
• WIlf has trained thousands of people in winter maintenance operations, and is a well regarded speaker.
• Wilf is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Iowa. He was also awarded the APWA Top Ten Public Works Leader of the Year Award in 2021.
• Wilf received his Bachelor’s and Doctorate degrees in engineering from Cambridge University, England, in 1981 and 1985 respectively. Wilf moved to the United States in 1984, working first as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. In 1987, Wilf moved to the University of Iowa, and became a faculty member in the College of Engineering, rising to the rank of Professor in 1998. Wilf worked at the University until June 2015, and is now Emeritus Professor there.