The dust detection system also features Doppler radar, which is intended to send data from ADOT to the National Weather ...

Groff said ADOT keeps the system operating at 100 percent. “ADOT performs maintenance on the dust detection system to make sure that everything is clean and can detect blowing dust," he said.

The Arizona Department of Transportation will begin testing some new high-tech paving equipment that the department said will help save money down the road.

“It is a working lab,” said Jesus Sandoval-Gil, ADOT materials lab engineer. The lab recently acquired new equipment that simulates the impact of semi-trucks on road surfaces.