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Title:

Future Growth of Surface Transportation Weather: An Academic Question

Abstract:

With a push at the federal level to establish a coordinated movement to enhance public safety through better planning based upon appropriate application of surface weather information, the potential for dramatic growth in the surface transportation weather industry is large. Unfortunately, the academic community has yet to embrace this potential to any widespread degree. Much of this can be traced to a historical lack of demand for trained personnel by the surface transportation weather community and to the lack of a well-defined set of research goals. This presentation looks at the impact the academic community will have on regulating the growth of the surface transportation weather movement including the role that research and training will have on sustaining the present expansion. The role of public-private partnerships between academic, government and industry partners in building for the future will be addressed.

Source(s):

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

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

Date: 2001

Author:

Osborne

Keywords:


Institutional issues

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