Session 12B Weather and Roads: Incorporating Resiliency to Extreme Weather Events into the Surface Transportation System—Part II

Thursday, 10 January 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs:
Stephen Early, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Alexander, AR and Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, Road Weather Management Program, Washington, DC

Extreme weather events create significant impacts to the nation’s highway system, from public safety and maintenance costs to lost productivity and commerce. In addition to operational response to weather impacts, efforts are needed to build resilience for future events. At the same time, the transportation industry is experiencing rapid modernization through the development of technologies in automated vehicles, connected vehicles, decision support systems, data sharing, communication, and cloud computing. This session explores technologies, techniques, and interdisciplinary approaches for identifying, forecasting, and responding to extreme transportation weather events for the benefit of the traveling public, commercial interests, and those who operate and maintain the transportation system.

Papers:
10:30 AM
12B.1
Road Weather Initiatives that Enable Resilience to Extreme Weather
Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and R. Alfelor, G. Guevara, and B. C. Boyce
11:00 AM
12B.3
State Departments of Transportation Perception of Winter Weather Forecasts and Impacts
Mark R. Anderson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and C. L. Walker, D. Steinkruger, S. Hasanzadeh, B. Esmaeili, and B. Dao
11:15 AM
12B.4
Updates to the Truck Blowover Algorithm for the Pikalert® System
Brittany Welch, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Anderson and T. Brummet
11:30 AM
12B.5
11:45 AM
12B.6
Expanded and Enhanced Road State Climatological Analyses from the Global Weather Corp. Road Weather Forecasts
Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and J. Thompson, B. Gail, B. Myers, and N. Rehak
12:00 PM
Ben Hershey
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