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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

3rd National Symposium on Surface Transportation Weather

Abstract:

This report is a summary of the third National Symposium on Surface Transportation Weather, which was sponsored by the FHWA and the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM). The symposium was conducted to provide a forum for members of the surface transportation operations, research, and user communities to work together to enhance collaboration and partnerships to improve surface transportation weather products and services for those who use, operate, and manage America's surface transportation infrastructure. The theme for the symposium was "Improving Commerce and Reducing Deaths and Injuries through Innovative, Weather-Related R&D and Applications for the Surface Transportation System".

Source(s):

OFCM

Date: 2007

Author:

OFCM

Keywords:


Safety
Productivity
Observing network
Forecast/Prediction
Decision support

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