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Final Report of the Operation and Demonstration Test of Short-Range Weather Forecasting Decision Support within an Advanced Transportation Weather Information System (#SAFE)
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2006-04-01
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Alternative Title:Advanced transportation weather information systems
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Abstract:The purpose of the Advanced Transportation Weather Information System (ATWIS) was to provide en-route weather forecasts and road condition information to the traveling public across North Dakota and South Dakota. ATWIS was the first system to develop, test, and produce an operational rural system for travel across vast open spaces, where road conditions and weather information are essential to economic and personal safety. ATWIS capitalized on the existing wireless telecommunication infrastructure while designing a system that can easily expand and adapt to the rapidly changing telecommunications industry. ATWIS has merged technologies from meteorology, computer science, wireless telecommunication, road weather monitoring and forecasting, and transportation together into a single decision support system that can respond, adapt, and disseminate information on short notice, within a recurring cycle. ATWIS has the ability to quickly adjust to changes in information standards, formats, and protocols as this industry matures. This final report includes the development efforts undertaken and the results of these efforts. Both internal and external evaluations were conducted based on the original and later modified goals and objectives of this operational test. The final and true evaluation of the system resided in the continuation of the system through commercialization of the technology in a staged approach, providing the opportunity for further growth and development of both the system and market. The goal of this project is to provide an evaluation and demonstration of how current technologies in mesoscale meteorological analysis and forecasting can be effectively used to produce precise spatial and temporal weather information that can be integrated into an advanced traveler information system (ATIS) for safer and more efficient operations. Upon achieving these goals, it is the desire of the project to establish a long-term, self-sustaining program to continue to provide advanced transportation weather information to the traveling public and the transportation infrastructure in which it exists.
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