WeatherEVANT: Real-Time Weather Related Event Visualization and ANalytics Tool

Weather related events cause major disruptions to our overall transportation system. During the recent winter seasons, the east coast of the United States has struggled with heavy snowstorms, which has drawn attention to the efficiency of storm operations. In this paper, the authors describe a web-based tool called WeatherEVANT that was developed as a result of past research efforts conducted by the authors of this paper for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA). The tool extracts the information residing in the snow operations database, which is updated frequently by NJTA maintenance operators, and provides various visualizations of this real-time data on its web-based interface integrated into GoogleMaps. WeatherEVANT also takes advantage of real-time data available from other sources including traffic cameras, weather reports, traffic data, and incident data among others. In that sense, it is a real-time data integration tool with extensive visualization and reporting capabilities. It can also automatically generate a variety of performance reports for the use by decision makers, such as salt usage, storm information, equipment usage, etc. One important salient feature of this tool is that it is being actively used by NJTA for the last two years, and improvements are implemented as a result of active feedback from its everyday users during the winter season.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD65 Standing Committee on Winter Maintenance.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Demiroluk, Sami
  • Ozbay, Kaan
  • Bartin, Bekir
  • Maggio, Matthew D
  • Nassif, Hani
  • Hesslein, Daniel L
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data fusion; Data sharing; Maintenance practices; Real time information; Snow; Visualization; Websites (Information retrieval); Winter maintenance
• Identifier Terms: Google Maps; New Jersey Turnpike Authority
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01627784
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-00114
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 2017 5:12PM