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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

ARROWS Evaluation

Abstract:

In a June 2002 meeting, winter maintenance managers at the Washington State DOT said that more accurate forecasts, that told not only where but when inclement weather was due, would be a valuable tool to aid them in keeping Washington State highways safe and passable during winter months. In response, the WSDOT ITS Office teamed with the University of Washington Department Atmospheric Sciences to build weather information and forecasting web pages specifically tailored to the managers' desires and needs. The result was the development of the ARROWS web pages, made available to all WSDOT winter maintenance managers for the 2003-2004 winter seasons. WSDOT subsequently conducted an in-house survey to determine what ARROWS users thought about the usefulness and presentation of information. This report presents the results of that survey, which have been used as input to the continuing development of ARROWS.

Source(s):

Washington State DOT, Prepared for Washington State Transportation Commission. For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2005

Author:

Senn, Boselly

Keywords:


Internet/web site
Road weather information system (RWIS)
Weather information
Winter maintenance

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