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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Developing Surface Transportation Weather Requirements in the United States

Abstract:

Tailored road weather products and an extensive transportation technology infrastructure constitute two key building blocks for the development of information systems that can alleviate the impacts of adverse weather upon the surface transportation system. These information systems go beyond those first developed for winter maintenance by meeting the weather information needs of all road users and operators. Improving system performance requires improved support to the decision-making process. In order to improve decision systems, it is necessary to determine the information needs of decision makers. Once these needs are determined, system requirements can be developed. These requirements will meet two critical needs: (1) enabling the meteorolgical community to modify their products to better meet the end users' needs and (2) serving as design elements for the next generation of weather decision support systems. In 1999, the FHWA contracted with Mitretek Systems to produce a guidance document called the Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements (STWDSR).

Source(s):

10th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC); FHWA and Mitretek Systems

Date: 2000

Author:

Pisano, Nelson

Keywords:


Weather information

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