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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

A Next Generation of Observations based on Passenger Vehicles

Abstract:

This paper describes the U.S. DOT Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative , discusses research to evaluate and validate the viability of using vehicle-based sensor data to generate potentially millions of new weather and pavement condition observations,.and provides details on the FHWA Road Weather Management program's efforts to conduct surface transportation weather research with this new paradigm of vehicle-based observations.

Source(s):

88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting; Noblis, FHWA and NCAR

http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/134838.pdf

Date: 2008

Author:

Stern, Pisano, Kennedy, Petty, Mahoney

Keywords:


Communications
Institutional issues

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