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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Idaho's Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Integration Project

Abstract:

The Idaho Transportation Department is spearheading a project to develop a web site that provides maintenance personnel with a "one-stop" access point for weather and road condition data in Idaho and within a 100 mile boundary of neighboring states. The project anticipates using existing data sources such as the NWS forecasts, Mesowest (University of Utah integrated weather system), and RWIS data from neighboring states. This paper details Idaho's approach to RWIS integration an the Challenges encountered.

Source(s):

2002 Joint Meeting of the California Alliance for Advanced Transportation Systems (CAATS) and the Rural Advanced Technology and Transportation Systems (RATTS), Castle Rock Consultants and Idaho Transportation. For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2002

Author:

Hagedorn, Breen

Keywords:


Weather information
Decision support
Internet/web site
Winter maintenance

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