Session 6 |
| | Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part 1: Surface Transportation |
| | Cochairs: S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA; Roemer Alfelor, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Surface Transportation and the Weather, A Highway Operations Perspective
Richard J. Nelson, Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City, NV |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | Partnering to achieve a safer and more efficient national surface transportation system: Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Transportation Department’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. Holman, R. Dombrowsky, S. Matula, J. O'Sullivan, P. Schultz, and F. Estis |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Clarus—The Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System  
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and R. M. Alfelor, J. S. Pol, L. C. Goodwin, and A. D. Stern |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | Development of the Clarus Concept of Operations: Status report
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and S. M. Conger, J. S. Pol, and P. Pisano |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | The U.S. Federal Highway Administration Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Project: Overview and Results
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and W. P. Mahoney |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 6.6 | The Pooled Fund Study Maintenance Decision Support System: A Functional Overview
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart, L. F. Osborne, and B. Podoll |
| 11:15 AM | 6.7 | On the use of an ensemble modeling system versus a very high resolution deterministic forecast as input to a road weather forecast system
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Nordlie |
| 11:30 AM | 6.8 | Mesoscale forecast products for travel information
Ed Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA |
| 11:45 AM | 6.9 | A field research test facility for long-term RWIS-ESS Validation
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Hanson, J. L. Horner, and R. Hart |
| 12:00 PM | 6.10 | An Automated Algorithm to Predict Winter Storm Road Conditions and Recommend Treatment Actions
Robert G. Hallowell, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and W. Myers and G. Phetteplace |