Passenger Bus Industry Weather Information Application.

Adverse weather significantly affects the United States national transportation system, including commercial companies that rely on highways to support their enterprises. The Passenger Bus (Motorcoach) Industry (PBI) is one such affected user whose operational efficiency, occupant safety, and the cost of services can be compromised by adverse weather. The primary objective of the Passenger Bus Industry Weather Information Application (PBI WxApp) is to integrate mobile platform environmental observations with fixed-site (airports and road-weather stations) observations in order to create a window of meteorological information along a commercial vehicle’s intended travel route. The expected outcome is situational awareness for drivers, passengers, and dispatchers or other operations personnel, including those who use decision support systems. Mobile platform observations describe environmental conditions in locations not sampled by fixed-site road-weather equipment. Consequently, the PBI WxApp includes input data that is dynamic and oft times rapidly changing when the vehicles encounter storms and precipitation. This report will describe the development of the PBI WxApp and its general outcomes. The findings show that mobile platform data are reliable and provide a weather window that is more complete than any single source of data.

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3329
• Corporate Authors:

  Global Science & Technology, Incorporated

  1000 Tecxhnology Drive, Suite 1235
  Farimont, WV  United States 

  Department of Transportation

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Heppner, Paul
  • Bell, Brian
  • Orrego, Andres
  • Wise, Joshua
  • Pucci, Julian
• Publication Date: 2011-3-21

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Project Findings
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 41p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transportation; Commercial vehicle operations; Decision support systems; Mobile communication systems; Passenger transportation; Road weather information systems; Weather conditions; Wireless LANs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01361076
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-JPO-11-123
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-10-R-00015
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 25 2012 2:21PM