Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Research Needs for Weather-Responsive Traffic Management

Abstract:

Weather-responsive traffic management views weather events as non-recurring incidents that can be predicted, observed, and mitigated. This paper reports weather impacts on traffic flow and describes an emerging concept of operations for a system-wide approach to traffic management in adverse weather. The paper discusses this structured approach to assess weather impacts and implement operational strategies that improve safety, mobility, and productivity. Finally, research needs to advance the state-of-the-practice in weather-responsive traffic management are enumerated.

Source(s):

83rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, FHWA and Mitretek Systems

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/best_practices/WxRspTfcMgmtTRB2004.pdf

Date: 2003

Author:

Pisano, Goodwin

Keywords:

Decision Support
Mobility
Safety
Traffic management
Productivity
Weather information

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