Session 2B Weather and Roads - Linking Road Weather Research, Information, and Technologies to Benefit Society, Part II

Monday, 13 January 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs:
Amanda R. Siems-Anderson, NCAR, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO and Stephen Early, IBM/The Weather Company, Brookhaven, GA

The surface transportation system is impacted significantly by weather, from public safety and maintenance costs to lost productivity and commerce. In addition, new weather-related solution and support requirements are being established as 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 research, technologies, techniques, and solutions for identifying, forecasting, and responding to surface 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
2B.1
New Test Results: Automated Vehicles During Adverse Weather
Brenda Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Alexander, AR; and D. Johnson and R. Alfelor

10:45 AM
2B.2
Effects of Precipitation Type on Crash Relative Risk Estimates in Kansas
Dana M. Tobin, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and M. R. Kumjian and A. W. Black

11:00 AM
2B.3
Machine Learning to Predict Vehicular Crash Severity from Weather Conditions
Curtis L. Walker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, T. C. McCandless, and A. R. Siems-Anderson

11:15 AM
2B.4
Road Surface Temperature Validation of the Global Weather Corp. Road Weather Forecasts
Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and J. Thompson and B. Gail

11:30 AM
2B.5
Evaluation of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model for Forecasting Roadway Surface Temperatures
W. Logan Downing, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and H. Li, J. Desai, M. Liu, D. M. Bullock, and M. E. Baldwin

11:45 AM
2B.6
Are We Ready to Weather Urban Air Mobility (UAM)?
Colleen Reiche, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC

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