Session 7 |
| | Transportation [Including meteorological aspects of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)] (Parallel with Session 6) |
| | Organizer: Douglas Jonas, Matrix Management Corp., Bainbridge Island, WA
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| 2:00 PM | 7.1 | The DoT ITS Program
Christine Johnson, DOT, Washington, DC |
| 2:30 PM | 7.2 | Delivering surface transportation weather information: Borrowing from aviation weather experience
Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Washington, DC; and R. A. Wagoner |
| 2:45 PM | 7.3 | Development of Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements
Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Washington, DC; and S. M. Holt and P. Pisano |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 P.M.)
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| 3:30 PM | 7.4 | The social and economic impact of weather information: a case study of surface transportation industries
Christopher R. Adams, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. J. Berri |
| 3:45 PM | 7.5 | Societal value of improved precipitation forecasts: A case study in surface transportation
Thomas R. Stewart, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. Nath, R. A. Pielke, and M. W. Downton |
| 4:00 PM | 7.6 | Contribution to a baseline understanding of the impact of weather on airline carrier operations
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and J. A. Shorter |
| 4:15 PM | 7.7 | Challenges and opportunities for using weather information to support transportation
Michael A. Rossetti, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and Thomas A Seliga, Volpe National Transportation System Center, Cambridge, MA and Basav Sen, Volpe National Transportation System Center, Cambridge, MA |