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 | Road Weather Management Points-of-Contact |
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 | Road Weather Management Section of the FHWA Office of Operations Website |
| This site is the official website of the Road Weather Management Program. The website contains an overview of the program and a schedule of upcoming events, as well as information on weather impacts, weather mitigation technologies and strategies, training and equipment providers, road weather research and development efforts, and related links. The website also provides summaries of several ongoing projects and applications, a list of hundreds of road weather-related publications, and links to nearly 40 statewide road weather condition websites. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/Weather/index.asp. | |
| Clarus Initiative Website |
| This site is a compilation of resources related to the Clarus Initiative. The website contains a Clarus flier, frequently asked questions (with answers), briefings presented at past meetings of the Clarus Initiative Coordinating Committee (ICC), the Clarus Concept of Operations, project design documents, the status of state agency contributions to Clarus, information on the Clarus regional demonstrations, contacts, and related links. The website also links to the Clarus System software tool, which is currently available to the transportation community on an experimental basis. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.clarusinitiative.org. | |
| Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Website |
| This site is the official website of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) project. The MDSS is a decision support tool that integrates relevant road weather forecasts, coded maintenance rules of practice, and maintenance resource data to provide winter maintenance managers with recommended road treatment strategies. The site contains a overview of the prototype, technical documents and program review materials, information on the most recent MDSS stakeholder meetings, contact information, and a link to the latest MDSS prototype software release. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/rdwx_mdss. | |
| PIARC Technical Committee on Winter Maintenance (C3.4) Website |
| This site is the official website of the World Road Association (abbreviated "PIARC") Technical Committee on Winter Services (Technical Committee B.5 [TCB.5]). The website contains a synopsis of the committee's strategies and outputs, a calendar of upcoming events, and a section where PIARC members can log in to restricted areas of the website. Among the committee's goals is to improve winter maintenance and operation information systems. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.piarc.org/en/technical-committees/committee-B.5.htm. | |
| Standing International Road Weather Commission (SIRWEC) Website |
| This site is the official website of the Standing International Road Weather Commission (SIRWEC). The purpose of SIRWEC is to facilitate information exchange among meteorologists, weather forecasters, highway engineers, maintenance personnel, and others about improving the safety of travel in a variety of weather conditions. Users can join the commission using an online sign-up feature. The website contains an introduction, the group's constitution, levels of deployment of road weather information system (RWIS) infrastructure in 30 countries, a history of past SIRWEC conferences, information on the next biannual conference, a list of members, and related links. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.sirwec.org. | |
| National Highway Visibility Website |
| Sponsored by the FHWA Highway Community eXchange program, this website provides a forum for discussion on the topic of weather conditions that affect visibility, especially fog. To participate in the Web-enabled discussion, users must join the National Highway Visibility (NHV) Community of Practice (CoP) using "one click" access via the website. The website includes an archive of previous messages posted as part of the discussion, reference documents, and a directory of NHV CoP members. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://knowledge.fhwa.dot.gov/cops/hcx.nsf/ home?openform&Group=National%20Highway%20Visibility. | |
 | Best Practices for Road Weather Management CD-ROM Version 2.0 |
| This CD-ROM is a compilation of resources available to help traffic, emergency, and maintenance managers improve roadway operations under inclement weather conditions. The CD-ROM includes a searchable database of 30 case studies of successful techniques used in response to various weather threats, including fog, high winds, rain, snow, ice, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and avalanches. Other resources contained on the CD-ROM include a searchable database of more than 200 road weather publications, an environmental sensor overview, and 39 statewide road condition websites and other online resources. New features in the Version 2.0 CD-ROM include a Web-based interface and feedback form. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/mitigating_impacts/best_practices.htm. To order the CD-ROM, contact Lynette Goodwin, Noblis, (202) 488-3033, Lynette.Goodwin@noblis.org. | |
| Clarus System |
| The Clarus System is a software tool currently available for use by the transportation community on an experimental basis. The Clarus System compiles and distributes weather observations from environmental sensor stations (ESSs) in 29 U.S. states, three U.S. local agencies and three Canadian provinces. Users can search the system's total population of ESSs by contributing agency or by geospatial coordinates (latitude and longitude). Data may be downloaded in several formats compatible with many common database management software systems. Users may choose to receive weather observations at 5-, 10-, 15-, 20- 25- or 30-minute intervals from selected ESSs on a subscription basis. (The Clarus System generates a subscription-specific link on the http://www.clarus-system.com website, where a user guide is available for download.) This prototype software has been made available to the transportation community for the purposes of demonstration, evaluation, and refinement of future versions of the software. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.clarus-system.com. | |
| Maintenance Decision Support System Version 5.0 |
| The Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) assists transportation maintenance personnel is making winter maintenance decisions with regard to the type, timing, rates and locations of road treatments, based on real-time weather observation data collected from a variety of sources. To aid in this decision support, MDSS generates diagnostic and prognostic maps of road conditions along road corridors, with emphasis on the 1- to 48-hour time horizon. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Order MDSS through the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Research Applied Laboratory (RAL) by registering at the website address http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/rdwx_mdss/products/register.php. | |
| Road Weather Resource Identification Tool, Version 2.0 |
| This software tool is a searchable database of hundreds of resources relating to road weather management, including research reports, articles, and other publications. Users can search the database by keyword, selecting from a list of topics, or using a "guided search" that interacts with the user through a series of questions. Version 2.0 was expanded to include more than 650 documents. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/rwri/registration.htm. Free registration is required to download the software. | |
| Transportation Management Center (TMC) Weather Integration Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide Tool |
| This software tool enables transportation management centers (TMCs) integrate weather information and technologies into their daily operations, by helping TMCs evaluate their needs for weather information and develop a plan to implement strategies to meet those needs. The software guides TMCs through a five-step process: (1) identification of relevant weather events within one's jurisdiction, (2) assessment of the magnitude of the impacts these events have on the transportation system, (3) identification of current strategies for managing the impacts of weather on one's operations, (4) prioritization of needs for weather information application and integration, and (5) identification of integration strategies and solutions that are best-suited to meeting high priority needs. Also included with the software available for download are the report Integration of Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Options: Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide upon which this software is based, and descriptions of common weather events. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/tmctool/registration.htm. | |
 | Integration of Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Operations: Report and Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide (2008) |
| This pair of documents presents the results of a study on the integration of weather information into transportation management center (TMC) operations. The study involved development of a draft Self-Evaluation Guide that helps TMCs identify severe weather conditions common to their area, assess the impact weather has on their operations, determine the current level of weather integration in TMC operations, and estimate their need for further integration. The draft Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide was tested on TMCs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Sacramento, California. A report documents the process of drafting, testing and refining the Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide and includes the weather integration plan of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 3 as an attachment. The Self-Evaluation Guide is the final version of the guide, which reflects refinements that were made as a result of the Milwaukee and Sacramento TMC tests. A software version of the Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide is available for download from the FHWA Office of Operations website at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/tmctool/registration.htm. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Maintenance Decision Support System Deployment Guide (FHWA-JPO-08-059) (2008) |
| This guide explores why and how to use the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) software tool. The guide discusses what the MDSS is, what are its benefits and the four phases of MDSS deployment (planning and justification, acquisition, implementation, and use and evaluation). The guide concludes with an annotated list of MDSS resources and lessons learned from previous MDSS deployments about the importance of training, overcoming institutional barriers, commitment from management, maintenance of environmental sensor stations (ESSs) and metadata. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Road Weather Management Performance Metrics (FHWA-JPO-08-039) (2008) |
| This report presents performance measures developed to assess the effectiveness of the FHWA Road Weather Management Program's (RWMP) products and activities. These products and activities include development of environmental sensor station (ESS) siting guidelines, development of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) and Maintenance Operations Decision Support System (MDOSS) software tools, and support for the Clarus and Vehicle Infrastructure Integration ITS Initiatives. In addition, the FHWA Road Weather Management Program is sponsoring research into weather responsive traffic management and integration of weather information into transportation management center (TMC) operations. Overall, 12 metrics were developed that measure progress towards three key Road Weather Management Program goals. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| 3rd National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium (3NSTWS) (2007) |
| This document provides a summary of the 3rd National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium (3NSTWS), held July 25-27, 2007, in Vienna, Virginia, and co-sponsored by the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM) and FHWA. The symposium provided a forum for representatives from three different aspects of surface transportation – operations, research and users – to work together to improve road weather products and services. The goal of this collaboration and these improved products and services is to reduce crashes and delays caused by inclement weather. This document summarizes each of the plenary speeches and breakout group sessions. The document concludes with action items to be accomplished as follow-up to the meeting. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ofcm.gov/wist/3NSTWSP-Summary-Report-Final.pdf. | |
| A Case Study of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) in Maine (FHWA-JPO-08-001) (2007) |
| This report documents the findings of a case study of the use of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) in the area around Portland, Maine. The MDSS was used during 12 storms that required a maintenance response. The evaluation compared the maintenance crew's operation with the MDSS to how operations would have been conducted prior to having access to the MDSS. Overall, the crew had a positive experience using the MDSS, although an usually mild winter and fewer storms requiring a maintenance response precluded the collection of more quantitative data on the MDSS' benefits. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Clarus: A Clear Solution for Road Weather Information (2007) |
| This flier describes the Clarus system as the 21st century's answer to the need for timely, high-quality road weather information. The flier describes Clarus' benefits for transportation managers, weather information providers, and the traveling public. The flier also includes perspectives of state department of transportation personnel who will benefit from the system's ability to standardize road weather data across multiple jurisdictions and multiple regions. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: To order a hardcopy, contact Paul Pisano, FHWA Office of Transportation Operations, (202) 366-1301, Paul.Pisano@dot.gov. For the online version, access the website address http://www.clarusinitiative.org/documents/Clarus_TRB_2007flyer_rev.pdf. | |
| Communicating with the Public Using ATIS During Disasters (2007) |
| This pair of reports examines and gives recommendations on what information needs to be communicated to evacuees and other travelers during disaster conditions and how advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) can be used to effectively deliver that information. Disasters include both natural (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, avalanches and fires) and man-made (e.g., hazardous material spills and terrorist attacks). A practitioner's guide explores the use of ATIS during a hazardous material leak near South Salt Lake City, Utah; a chlorine gas fire in Rockdale County, Georgia; a large wildfire near San Diego, California; avalanches and snow melt flooding in Clark County, Nevada; and a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. The practitioner's guide concludes with tools for conducting a workshop among key stakeholders to develop such an ATIS disaster strategy. A second report presents a concept of operations that characterizes the flow of information among people, organizations, and technologies for using ATIS during disasters. These documents are also available on the Best of Public Safety and Emergency Transportation Operations CD-ROM. (Access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov/its_publicsafety/index.htm or contact itspubs@dot.gov to obtain a copy.) Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Empirical Studies on Traffic Flow in Inclement Weather (FHWA-HOP-07-073) (2007) |
| This report documents the findings of an evaluation of the impact of weather on traffic flow. That weather has an impact on traffic flow is obvious to both transportation professionals and laypeople. However, until this evaluation, there had been limited use of traffic analysis tools to better understand and quantify the relationship between the two. Archived data on both traffic and weather from three metropolitan areas – Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Baltimore, Maryland; and Seattle, Washington – were analyzed using macroscopic simulation models. The study found that varying weather conditions had no impact the density of traffic jams, but that rain and snow did impact free-flow speed, speed-at-capacity and road capacity and that the degree of impact was directly proportional to the intensity of precipitation. The report concludes with recommendations for future research. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Weather Applications and Products Enabled through Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII): Feasibility and Concept Development Study (FHWA-HOP-07-084) (2007) |
| Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) involves two-way wireless transmission of data from vehicles to other vehicles and from vehicles to the roadside. If implemented nationwide, VII has the potential to make enormous amounts of data available to many different types of ITS applications, including road weather applications. This report assesses the feasibility of using VII-enabled data to enhance road weather products and services. The report inventories what weather data elements are already available on board most vehicles, such as temperature, humidity, precipitation and light level. The report provides an analysis of existing road weather products and services that could be enhanced by vehicle-based weather data, as well as entirely new products and services that these data could make possible. The report presents the results of a case study from Detroit, Michigan that evaluated the accuracy of on-board data elements as compared with data from conventional weather monitoring equipment. The report concludes with recommendations for future research. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Integration of Emergency and Weather Elements into Transportation Management Centers (FHWA-HOP-06-090) (2006) |
| This report documents the findings of a study that examined how weather and emergency information is being integrated into operations at 38 transportation management centers (TMCs) across the country. The study was sponsored jointly by the FHWA Road Weather Management Program and the FHWA Emergency Transportation Operations Program. The report describes the state-of-the-practice in integration of weather and emergency information into TMC operations. The report also identifies best practices, discusses the benefits and challenges of integration, and offers recommendations on how to get started and how to enhance current weather/emergency integration at one's own TMC. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Prototype Weather Response System (WRS) for Transportation Operations (FHWA-HOP-06-106) (2006) |
| This flier provides an overview of an effort by the FHWA and the Missouri Department of Transportation to develop a prototype online software tool called Weather Response System (WRS). The WRS supports transportation systems management, operations, and maintenance prior to and during weather events. The flier presents the purposes, objectives, and features of the WRS. The flier concludes with a brief description of a three-month real-world test of the WRS and the planned enhancements that were identified during this test. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| The Maintenance Decision Support System (FHWA-HOP-05-061) (2005) |
| This flier provides an overview of an effort by the FHWA and its partners to develop a Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) prototype. The flier explains what an MDSS is, what is innovative about it, what the benefits are to maintenance supervisors at the state department of transportation level, where one can obtain MDSS documents and software, and what are the next steps in the development process. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Contact Paul Pisano, FHWA Office of Transportation Operations, (202) 366-1301, Paul.Pisano@dot.gov. | |
| Road Weather Information System Environmental Sensor Station Siting Guidelines (FHWA-HOP-05-026) (2005) |
| This document provides guidelines for siting a Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Environmental Sensor Station (ESS) and its associated atmospheric and pavement sensors. The guidelines are intended to help establish uniformity in siting ESSs and to improve the usefulness of road weather information derived from ESS observations. The steps in the siting process include assessment of road weather information requirements, site selection, sensor location, scheduling periodic site review, and consideration of additional factors, such as power, communications, aesthetics, safety and security. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Road Weather Management Product Guide (FHWA-HOP-05-057) (2005) |
| This flier profiles several resources that are products of the FHWA Office of Operations' Road Weather Management Program (RWMP). The flier profiles available training, software tools, project fliers, reports, and other publications. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Contact Paul Pisano, FHWA Office of Transportation Operations, (202) 366-1301, Paul.Pisano@dot.gov. | |
| Winter Highway Operations (NCHRP Synthesis# 344) (2005) |
| This report is an update to a 1994 NCHRP Synthesis report on managing roadway snow and ice control operations. This report presents the state-of-the-practice on winter highway operations, compiled through surveys sent to representatives of 71 transportation agencies in the U.S. and Canada. The report assesses the current state-of-the-practice, covering such issues as snow and ice control strategies, budgeting and performance measures, plow routes and material application decisions, storm clean-up, decision support, information management, operations, traditional technologies and Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS). The report also addresses agencies' environmental responsibilities, institutional and workforce issues, emerging technologies, and directions for future research. Cost: $17 for the hardcopy version; the online version is free. To Access This Resource: To order the hardcopy version, contact the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Bookstore at http://books.trbbookstore.org/syh344.aspx, (202) 334-3213, fax: (202) 334-2519. For the online version, access the website address http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_344.pdf. | |
| Collaborative Research on Road Weather Observations and Predictions by Universities, State Departments of Transportation, and National Weather Service Forecast Offices (2004) |
| From 2001 to 2003, the FHWA Road Weather Management program partnered with the National Weather Service to conduct five research projects through the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET). The purpose of these projects was to evaluate the use of weather observations and modeling to improve highway safety and support effective decisions made by the various jurisdictions that manage the highway system. These projects involved partnerships among the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs), state departments of transportation, and universities. A report documents the findings of the research projects. A brochure summarizes the findings and presents lessons learned. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Weather and ITS (2004) |
| Published jointly by FHWA, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), this brochure examines both the present and future use of surface transportation weather information in traveler information, as well as transportation systems operations and maintenance. The brochure lists resource documents, websites and points-of-contact at FHWA, AMS, and ITS America. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.itsa.org/itsa/files/pdf/Weather_ITS_brochure.pdf. | |
| Where Weather Meets the Road: A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services (2004) |
| This document outlines a research agenda for improving road weather services in the U.S., recommending that FHWA take the lead in creating a coordinated national road weather research program. The program's main objective would be to bring together the weather and transportation communities to maximize the use of available information and technologies, identify and support research priorities, and effectively implement new scientific and technological advances. Recommended next steps are to establish regional research centers and create national demonstration corridors to showcase the effectiveness of road weather improvements. Cost: $37 for the hardcopy version; $31.50 for the online version; $48 for both. To Access This Resource: Contact National Academies Press, (800) 624-6242, http://www.nap.edu. | |
| Environmental Sensor Stations (ESS) ITS Standards Advisory (2003) |
| This flier is one of a series of documents that provide state and local transportation agencies with background and guidance on development issues and other key activities related to ITS standards. This flier provides an update on recent developments concerning standards for environmental sensor stations within the National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) family of ITS standards. An initial version of the NTCIP standard for environmental sensor stations – NTCIP 1204 – was published in 1998. The flier contains case studies on the use of NTCIP 1204 in Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin; a list of contacts; and a bibliography. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Intelligent Transportation Systems and Winter Operations in Japan (FHWA-PL-03-016) (2003) |
| This report documents the findings of a 2003 scanning tour of Hokkaido, Japan, to investigate the use of advanced technologies for winter maintenance operations and implementation of those advances in Japan's ITS architecture. The report presents the scanning team's recommendations for application of Japan's techniques in the U.S. including testing several advanced winter maintenance vehicle systems, investigating integration of weather-related information into ITS corridors, developing performance-based standards for winter maintenance, and establishing a data-sharing project involving the National Weather Service and transportation agencies. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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| Weather Information for Surface Transportation (WIST): National Needs Assessment Report (2002) |
| Published by the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this report compiles and analyzes weather information needs for selected surface transportation sectors. The report draws conclusions that are common to roadway, railway, transit, and marine transportation, pipeline systems, and airport ground operations. In addition, the report suggests next steps for a broadly coordinated weather information for surface transportation (WIST) initiative. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ofcm.gov/wist_report/wist-report.htm. | |
 | Road Risk (FHWA-HOP-05-024) (2005) |
| This 21-minute video explores the effects of weather on highway operations and the existing and emerging solutions being implemented to improve mobility, safety, and productivity. The video discusses ongoing efforts to improve operations, focusing on operations under severe weather conditions and the role of ITS. The video highlights several technology solutions, including low visibility warning systems, maintenance decision support systems, and 511. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: To order a copy of the video, contact Paul Pisano, FHWA Office of Transportation Operations, (202) 366-1301, Paul.Pisano@dot.gov. | |
 | Principles and Tools for Road Weather Management (offered by the National Highway Institute, Course# 137030) |
| This course helps those involved in highway maintenance and operations develop techniques and strategies for tackling road weather problems. This course provides basic knowledge of meteorology and addresses the technological resources available to support highway personnel in making effective road weather management decisions. Key topics covered in the course include the impacts of weather on highway operations, fundamentals of meteorology including how it pertains to Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS), technical and institutional resources available for implementing RWIS and a range of effective and open solutions to various types of road weather conditions and for various management practices. The course focuses heavily on resources and solutions, and how those solutions can reduce the impact of adverse weather on the traveling public and the highway agency. Course Length: One day. Cost: $220 per participant in 2009; $240 per participant in 2010. To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/training/brows_catalog.aspx and search for course number "137030." | |
| Fundamentals of Road Weather Seminar (offered by the FHWA Resource Center Operations Team) |
| This seminar provides a basic understanding of road weather management, enabling participants to facilitate deployment of integrated road weather systems, maintenance decision support applications, and tools and practices in response to adverse weather conditions. The intended audience is emergency managers responsible for the development and deployment of effective road weather management tools and practices. Course Length: One-half day. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Contact Ray Murphy, FHWA Resource Center (Olympia Fields, Illinois), (708) 283-3517, Ray.Murphy@dot.gov. | |
| Principles and Tools for Road Weather Management (offered by the Consortium for ITS Training and Education) |
| This course presents an overview of the use of ITS and other tools to address road weather problems. The course discusses the types of road weather problems and their associated costs, as well as basic concepts of meteorology. The course examines various strategies for addressing road weather problems, including Road Weather Information Systems (RWISs) and decision support systems to respond effectively to weather situations. The course also discusses these strategies to aid traffic management, traveler information, emergency management, and road maintenance. This course is offered in Web-based and blended instructor-led/Web-based versions. Course Length: Six hours. Cost: $150 per participant for the Web-based version; $250 per participant for the blended version. To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.citeconsortium.org/courses/RoadWeatherMgmt.html. | |
| Anti-Icing/RWIS Computer-Based Training |
| This course is a self-paced, interactive, multi-media computer-based training (CBT) course that instructs students on the use of Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) and anti-icing techniques. After completing the introductory lessons, students put their knowledge into practice in the Scenario Room in which students battle winter events with tools available in a simulated winter maintenance facility. Cost: $400 for members of the American Public Works Association (APWA); $500 for non-members. To Access This Resource: Contact the APWA Bookstore, http://www.apwa.net/bookstore/detail.asp?PC=PB.X407, (800) 848-2792, fax: (816) 472-1610. | |
| Fundamentals of Road Weather Management CD-ROM: Professional Development Module |
| This professional development module was developed by FHWA in partnership with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) to provide transportation practitioners with a quick, concise, and easy way to learn the basics of road weather management. The CD-ROM provides general information about the scope of the road weather problem, the types of management strategies that can be used, the technologies available to support road weather management, and actions that can be taken to address road weather incidents. The CD-ROM also presents best practices in road weather management. The module includes a PowerPoint presentation that takes about an hour to complete, as well as a supplemental guide. Cost: $75 for ITE members; $100 for non-members. To Access This Resource: Contact the ITE Bookstore, http://www.ite.org/bookstore/index.asp, (202) 289-0222 x130, fax: (202) 289-7722, publications@ite.org. | |