AMES, Iowa (AP) — Roadways can turn hazardous and deadly during winter’s wrath, and a project under way in Iowa is looking at one possible solution: Heating the pavement.

The Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa State University are working together on heated pavement technology, the Ames Tribune reports.

ISU engineering professor Halil Ceylan is also director of the Institute for Transportation’s program for sustainable pavement engineering. He is principal investigator of the heated-pavement project, which began as a class project.

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