Description:

In the transportation sector, adverse weather and road weather events pose a significant impact to the safety of the traveling public and affects the productivity and economic stability to commerce. Adverse weather and road weather events include, but are not limited to, flooding, high winds, low visibility, freezing rain, snowstorms, tornadoes, tropical storms, and hurricanes. To support managing the transportation system, decision support systems are being researched, piloted, and used operationally in transportation agencies or by their consultants/vendors. With these decision support systems, research continues as new technologies are added to the systems. The research activities are conducted by Federal agencies (i.e., Federal Highway Administration, National Weather Service), transportation agencies, academia, non-profits, private sector, etc.

This session will consist of discussions on decision support systems that support road weather management activities. We invite road weather professionals and decision support system owners/users to share best practices and lessons learned from road weather-related management strategies that use the systems.