Citizen reporting program for road weather information at Utah Department of Transportation.

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• Creators:
  Alfelor, Roemer ; Miller, Lisa
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Road Weather Management
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Road weather information systems
  • Traffic control centers
  • Public participation
  • Weather forecasting
  • Software
  • Smartphones
  • Evaluation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-JPO-13-093
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Utah
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The FHWA Road Weather Management Program partnered ; with Utah DOT to develop and implement advanced traveler ; information strategies during weather events. UDOT already ; has one of the most sophisticated Traffic Operations Centers ; (TOCs) in the country in terms of how they obtain and integrate road weather information with traffic management decisions and traveler information dissemination (see Figure 1). ; UDOT currently has a robust road weather condition and ; forecasting system that provides information to the traveling ; public through several dissemination methods. As part of this ; implementation, UDOT focused on the initial deployment of a ; citizen reporting program, and improvements to their traveler ; information website (UDOT Traffic) and mobile applications.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26826/dot_26826_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 770.43 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b3070fff3689ff42061b78024b4d7920d20a5a2c0b8741c89b09e39d282365616c7c8dc6fec75e2bbc5ba028d2f89dae280b489ce4a55b8e98f59cd910db9601