Walking, driving and riding in a winter wonderland

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Walking, driving and riding in a winter wonderland

02/05/2015 02:52 AM EST

For Paul Torrens, wintry weather is less about sledding and more about testing out models of human behavior.
Torrens, a geographer at the University of Maryland, studies how snow and icy conditions affect human decisions about transportation. He also studies how these decisions ripple through other infrastructure systems.
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