Passenger bus industry weather information application.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Passenger bus industry weather information application (PBI WxApp)
• Creators:
  Heppner, Paul ; Bell, Brian ; Orrego, Andres ; Wise, Joshua ; Pucci, Julian
• Corporate Creators:
  Global Science & Technology, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration ; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Road weather information systems
  • Driver information systems
  • Information processing
  • Data collection
  • Automatic data collection systems
  • Information systems
  • Loads
  • Surveys
  • Evaluation
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-JPO-11-123
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Project findings.
• Contracting Officer:
  Paul Pisano
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Description:
  Adverse weather significantly affects the United States national transportation system, including commercial companies
  
  that rely on highways to support their enterprises. The Passenger Bus (Motorcoach) Industry (PBI) is one such affected
  
  user whose operational efficiency, occupant safety, and the cost of services can be compromised by adverse weather.
  
  The primary objective of the Passenger Bus Industry Weather Information Application (PBI WxApp) is to integrate
  
  mobile platform environmental observations with fixed-site (airports and road-weather stations) observations in order to
  
  create a window of meteorological information along a commercial vehicle’s intended travel route. The expected
  
  outcome is situational awareness for drivers, passengers, and dispatchers or other operations personnel, including
  
  those who use decision support systems. Mobile platform observations describe environmental conditions in locations
  
  not sampled by fixed-site road-weather equipment. Consequently, the PBI WxApp includes input data that is dynamic
  
  and oft times rapidly changing when the vehicles encounter storms and precipitation.
  
  This report will describe the development of the PBI WxApp and its general outcomes. The findings show that mobile
  
  platform data are reliable and provide a weather window that is more complete than any single source of data.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-10-R-00015
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3329/dot_3329_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.10 MB]
• Collection(s):
  ITSJPO Digital Library ; Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2faddccce66247ba5dbae51c8601c1b20e550ffa8a0dd37f65389acd106d0c63dece8e3505a18eae480b06023d50577859fb873bf8057065eabed4b683ffd9d0