Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Central European Transnational Road Weather Information System
Abstract:
The considerable increase of road traffic after the new countries joined the European Union demands application of sophisticated telematic data systems to ensure fluent and safe transport flow. Meteorological data acquired by numerous road weather stations installed along the highways and motorways are essential sources for creation of specialized road weather forecasts as well as for optimization of the road maintenance in an international scale. Collaboration of meteorologists and road maintenance specialists from Czech Republic and Germany resulted in establishing the unified road weather data code SH70 and development of the BUFR template for road weather data. The following contribution will present the data format and discuss the experience with the mutual exchange, dissemination and presentation. The basis of the future "Central European Road Weather Information System" is also introduced.
Source(s):
13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC); Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (Czech Republic)
Date: 2006
Author:
Skuthan, Glanc
Keywords:
Weather information
Institutional issues
Road weather information system (RWIS)
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