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Title:

Weather Information for Road Managers

Abstract:

This article describes weather impacts on road safety, mobility and productivity; observing systems used by transportation agencies; the benefits of road weather information; and several road weather management strategies. FHWA efforts related to the Clarus Initiative, the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative, and the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) prototype are also described.

Source(s):

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, March/April 2005

http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/resources/publications/fhwa/acsmarticle.doc

Date: 2005

Author:

Pisano, Goodwin, Stern

Keywords:


Mobility
Productivity
Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)
Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
Mobile sensing
Remote sensing
Weather information

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