Guidelines for disseminating road weather advisory & control information.

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• Alternative Title:
  Guidelines for disseminating road weather advisory and control information
• Creators:
  Lichty, Monica G. ; Richard, Christian M. ; Campbell, John L. ; Bacon, L. Paige
• Corporate Creators:
  Battelle Seattle Research Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Weather
  • Weather conditions
  • Weather forecasting
  • Traveler information and communication systems
  • Driver information systems
  • Road weather information systems
  • Route guidance
  • Road weather messages
  • Traveler advisory
  • Road weather condition forecasts
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-JPO-12-046
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Contracting Officer:
  Alfelor, Roemer
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Abstract:
  The tremendous growth in the amount of available weather and road condition information—including devices ; that gather weather information, models and forecasting tools for predicting weather conditions, and electronic ; devices used by travelers—has led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop effective and specific ; guidelines for communicating road weather information in a way that is consistent with what travelers need, want, ; and will use when making travel decisions. ; This project, Testing and Evaluation of Preliminary Design Guidelines for Disseminating Road Weather Advisory ; & Control Information, builds upon the earlier Human Factors Analysis of Road Weather Advisory and Control ; Information project which was initiated to assist transportation officials in communicating both pre-trip and enroute ; road weather information effectively, consistently, and timely to meet the needs of travelers for different ; weather conditions and travel scenarios. This earlier project resulted in preliminary guidelines. ; For the current effort, these preliminary guidelines were disseminated to a broad group of transportation and road ; weather officials for review and use. These reviewers included staff from private agencies and State Department of ; Transportation (DOT) staff working at Traffic Management Centers (TMCs). Evaluation of the guidelines ; followed through end user surveys, on-site interviews and discussions, and application of the preliminary ; guidelines to assess their suitability and effectiveness for traffic operations. Valuable feedback provided by these ; end users was used to modify the preliminary guidelines and develop the revised guidelines presented here.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-06-D-00007/ORDER T11001/WO BA07-089
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3362/dot_3362_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.97 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; ITSJPO Digital Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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