Road Weather Management Program
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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

A National Program for Surface Transportation Weather Applications

Abstract:

Given how much is at risk, it is dismaying that, unlike for aviation, there is no dedicated program of research and deployment for surface transportation weather needs. The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), that includes environmental sensing, information dissemination and decision support, promotes the operational techniques and travel planning that need better weather information. The ITS also prepares surface transportation to be a full partner with the aviation, maritime and military interests that have worked so productively with the meteorological community in the past on research and deployment programs. What surface transportation still lacks is a nationally focused, surface transportation weather program with dedicated funding equal to the needs. This paper describes motivations and some of the issues that a dedicated national program should address.

Source(s):

11th Annual ITS America Meeting, Weather: Making it a National Priority in Surface Transportatio

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/publications/its_america.pdf

Date: 2001

Author:

Pisano, Nelson

Keywords:


Institutional issues

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