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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Advanced Rural Transportation Information and Coordination (ARTIC) Operational Test Evaluation Report

Abstract:

Report presents results of one-year evaluation test located in the Arrowhead Region of Northeastern Minnesota. The project focused on combining resources and streamlining dispatching operations for four transportation agencies: Mn/DOT, MSP, Dial-a-Ride and transit services. The focal point is a centralized communication and dispatching center, where dispatchers communicate with maintenance and emergency vehicles, and dispatch vehicles based on an integrated database that includes functionality, availability, and real time location of vehicles in the field.

Source(s):

Short Elliott Hendrickson, Prepared for Minnesota DOT Office of Advanced Transportation Systems

http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/jpodocs/repts_te/13328.pdf

Date: 2000

Author:

Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc.

Keywords:


Emergency management
Institute issues

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