84th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 18: Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part II (ROOM 6B)

Thursday, 15 January 2004: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM
Room 6B
Cochairs:  Ed Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation and David Pace, SAIC
Papers:
  1:45 PM
Graphical Forecasts For Aviation
Jack May, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and M. Andrews

  2:00 PM
Temporal and spatial behavior of visibility obtained from Runway Visual Range (RVR) sensors during snowfall events at several major airports
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and S. Burnley

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  2:15 PM
The Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS): Demonstration Results and Future Plans
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and W. P. Mahoney III

Poster PDF (1007.4 kB)
  2:30 PM
  2:45 PM
The efficacy of plug-and-play components for promoting the successful deployment of Maintenance Decision Support Systems for surface transportation
Leon F. Osborne, Jr., Meridian Environemental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and D. K. Rand

  3:00 PM
  3:15 PM
A dynamic—stochastic approach to road and bridge frost forecasting
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart

Poster PDF (92.6 kB)
  3:30 PM
Evaluation of the accuracy of road and bridge forecasts provided to the Iowa DOT
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart and D. Burkheimer

Poster PDF (104.8 kB)
  3:45 PM
RWIS Applications of MesoWest in the Western United States
John D. Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt

  4:00 PM
Weather research for surface transportation: the roadway environment
John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. C. Staudt

  4:15 PM
An automated real-time road weather system (ARROWS) for highway maintenance personnel
S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA

  4:45 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall