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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

ITS Standards Impacting the Maintenance Community

Abstract:

This paper provides an overview of ITS standards and the development process: highlighting the ways in which standards are important to the maintenance community, identifying relevant standards, and describing resources for technical support. The paper focuses primarily on the Environmental Sensor Station (ESS) standard and related standards that facilitate use of ESS data in Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) and other systems.

Source(s):

FHWA Road Weather Management Program and Mitretek Systems

Date: 2004

Author:

Pisano, Goodwin, Proper

Keywords:


Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)
Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
Observing network

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