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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

The Advanced Transportation Weather Information System (ATWIS)

Abstract:

The Advanced Transportation Weather Information System (ATWIS) project was designed to provide a current road and forecasted weather report to the traveling public and commercial vehicles within North and South Dakota. This prototype project was to investigate how to merge information and current technologies from both state and private industry to provide in-vehicle decision support data for the traveler. However, unlike efforts to adapt current governmental weather forecast products designed for general public safety and air travel, the ATWIS was conceived and designed to provide information specifically for ground transportation, its users and maintainers. This paper examines the development and operational history of the nation's first, and currently only, multi-state ATIS. While an in-vehicle information system was the driving force that led to the creation of this technology, it spawned additional products and services, that have increased the accuracy and reduced the overall cost of site-specific weather information to both the traveling public and departments of transportation.

Source(s):

Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium; University of North Dakota Regional Weather Center

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14180

Date: 2000

Author:

Owens

Keywords:


Weather information
Forecast/Prediction
Decision support
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

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