Weather Information for Surface Transportation (WIST)

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Weather Information for Surface Transportation
(WIST)

• A GIS Based Approach for the
• Transportation Decision Maker
• Hank Pomeranz
• Litton PRC Inc

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Overview

• Why GeoWeather Solutions?
• Some of the issues from last years discussion
  panels
• Our approach to the problem.
• A little about GeoWeather functionality
• Applicability
• Summary

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National Weather Service Modernization
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A Review of Last Years Panel Sessions

• Departments of Commerce and Defense Weather
• Services and Capabilities for Surface
  Transportation
• Decision Support
• Environmental Decision thresholds being
  adequately met?
• Coordination..to create capability and technology
  transfer leverages.
• Clientele defined thresholdsTemperature,
  hydrometeors, wind direction-speed, severe
  weather events, black ice accretion, visibility
  reductions
• Commercial Weather Information Production
• Capabilities and Services
• Integrating the non-weather systems into
  information
• Federal Agency Weather Information Needs
• Right forecast or observation at the critical
  moment in the decision process
• Specific Environmental thresholds
• Finer Resolution

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A Review of Last Years Panel Sessions

• State and Urban/Rural Transit Weather
• Information Needs
• Customer defined decision thresholds
• Rapid refreshment is critical
• Concerns rising over the ownership of the data
  and violating proprietary ownership.
• Research/Technology Innovation and
• Decision Support
• new technologies, heretofore unrelated to
  surface transportationcan be applied to solve
  some of the problems associated with surface
  transportation

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GeoWeather Solutions

• The GeoWeather Partnerships
• Litton PRC - Intergraph Team
• Litton PRC providing the innovative methods of
  the 4.5B National Weather Service Modernization
  Program
• Intergraph providing state of the art GIS
  software
• Weather information fused with your GIS data
• Complete life-cycle weather data management
• A complete turnkey solution for decision makers
• Mitigate the adverse impact of weather while
  minimizing your costs

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A Different Approach Proprietary data?

• DATA versus Products
• Customer can buy a receiver and download all the
  data.
• Data is free for local or shared use with
  NOAAPort Receive System investment.
• Products can be made locally and shared.

It may not be necessary to buy data and
worry about proprietary issues.
The National Weather Service SBN
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GeoWeatherTM SolutionsGIS Data Sources
Remember this bridge
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How GeoWeather WorksEvent/Criteria/Action

• Provides local control over what to monitor and
  how to react in your Area of Interest
• Events are weather conditions which have an
  impact on your operations
• Lightning strike, high winds, temperatures, etc.
• Criteria are qualifiers used to evaluate events
• Measurements above or below a specified
  threshold
• below freezing, above 65 knots, etc.
• Actions are responses taken when defined events
  and criteria occur
• Highlighting map areas affected
• Displaying inventories
• Email, Page, FAX, Print, Network Pop-up, Create
  Image

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Specifying Areas of Interest
The whole state
Buffer around Interstates
Any AOI
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Specifying an Area of Interest
Area of Interest
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Nowcasting Event - Criteria - Action
Environmental Inputs
Weather overlay on assets map
NEXRAD Doppler Radar
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Surface Observations
Lightning Observations
GIS
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ForecastingEvent - Criteria - Action
GIS/WX
Mon
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12AM
24 hour
2AM
12 hour
4AM
Analysis
lon
6AM
lat
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12PM
WX
2PM
Action
4PM
6PM
GIS
8PM

10PM
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Actions

• Actions are responses taken when defined events
  and criteria occur
• Highlighting map areas affected
• Displaying inventories and creating a report
• Email, Page, FAX, Print, Network Pop-up,
• Create Image
• Kick-off additional applications

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Transportation

• Roads and rails are critical assets
• Local, state and federal department of
  transportation (DOT) agencies must keep roads
  clear for daily and emergency traffic.
• GeoWeather Solutions can determine where
• Identify roads likely to be affected
• Warn of the need to check salt or sand
  inventories
• Define areas to deploy snow ploughs or other
  vehicles
• Help plan road closings or detours
• Automatically notify work crews
• Fax warnings to other agencies and the public

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Federal

• U.S. government agencies have extensive assets
  and critical missions that make weather data
  essential to decision makers.
• Federal agencies have a vested interest in
  tracking severe weather they include
• Department of Energy
• Defense
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Federal Aviation Administration
• FEMA
• GeoWeather will migrate for use in
• Hydrology
• Nuclear, chemical or biological (NBC)

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GeoWeather Solutions SummaryReal-time
environmental data fused with GIS

• GeoWeather Solutions applies real-time
  environmental information into a GIS environment
  helping customers with mission critical
  activities.
• Planning
• Asset management
• Dispatch
• Routing
• Daily Operations
• GeoWeather Solutions can be help customers
  mitigate the adverse impact of weather while
  minimizing their costs.
• GeoWeather Solutions includes all the tools to
  help customers get up-and-running right away.