FHWA Road Weather Management Program Roadmap FY 20052009

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FHWA Road Weather Management Program Roadmap FY
2005-2009
Objectives Current Status
Outputs
I. Partnerships Collaboration (Bring
multi-disciplinary approach to the Road Weather
challenge)

• Partnership Development
• Emerging NOAA/FHWA Partnership
• Staff-level cross-DOT coordination
• Uncoordinated industry participation
• Ongoing international coordination

• Partnership Development
• Formally established relationship with NOAA
• Formally established cross-DOT working group for
  surface transportation weather activities
• Coordinated industry participation
• Active international technology transfer

• Training
• Inconsistent field capacity among Federal and
  state partners
• Outreach
• A variety of road weather management material
  available
• Emerging constituency with strength in
  maintenance management

• Training
• Staff trained on targeted road weather management
  practices in 25 states at appropriate level of
  knowledge to make investment decisions
• Outreach
• Improved accessibility to relevant information
• Expanding constituency across transportation
  disciplines and the weather community

II. Customer Service Outreach (Advance
the state-of-the- practice by raising Road
Weather capabilities across the
transportation industry)
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FHWA Road Weather Management Program Roadmap FY
2005-2009
Objectives Current Status
Outputs
III. Tools Technologies (Advance the
state-of-the-art through targeted research)

• Maintenance Decision Support
• Prototype winter maintenance decision support
  system (MDSS) developed
• B. Clarus Other Observing Systems
• Inconsistent/sparse/incomplete road weather
  observations information
• Weather-Responsive Traffic Management
• Limited mitigation strategies

• Maintenance Decision Support
• 20 states incorporating winter MDSS functionality
• MDSS functionality integrated into other
  maintenance construction activities
• B. Clarus Other Observing Systems
• Regional demonstration model deployment of
  integrated/ coordinated observation forecasting
  system, partnership in place to implement
  nationwide system
• Weather-Responsive Traffic Management
• Integrated mitigation tools for freeways
  arterials tested deployed in 20 metro areas
• Systemwide mitigation strategies expanding into
  statewide operations

IV. Program Management
Evaluation (Ensure that Road Weather investments
are cost-effective)

• Performance Management
• Limited benefit-cost data
• Preliminary concept of appropriate performance
  measures

• Performance Management
• Performance measures defined and tracked