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Title:

Deployment Assistance Report #6: Weather and Environmental Content on 511 Services

Abstract:

This report shares information regarding the types of weather and environmental information that can be provided via 511 and the issues associated with this provision. This report's main audience is the public and private providers of weather data, 511 planners and implementers. The term "weather" is used in a variety of means throughout this report, at times referring: to atmospheric information; to road weather (e.g., a pavement temperature forecast); or to road conditions (e.g., icy). The term "data" is used throughout as that data that weather and environmental systems generate, while the term "information" is meant as that information created from the weather and environmental systems data.

Source(s):

511 Deployment Coalition

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/511/pdf/511weath.pdf

Date: 2003

Author:

AASHTO, APTA, ITS America, USDOT

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