A Regional Pilot Weather Information System for Surface Transportation and Incident Management: Concept of Operations

Surface transportation in the U.S. is constantly threatened by the capricious character of weather. Improving the quality and accessibility of road and weather information may benefit a wide spectrum of weather data users. This paper presents a case study known as the proof-of-concept WeatherShare, an integrated, user-friendly surface transportation weather system for northern California. The goal of WeatherShare is to streamline and integrate currently available road weather data into one single source easily accessible by incident responders and potentially the traveling public, including those from Caltrans Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS), California Data Exchange Center, National Weather Service, among other providers in the region. To guide the system design and development, a Concept of Operations (ConOps) was developed to: 1) document the existing system; 2) identify the high-level needs to be addressed; 3) provide a conceptual overview of the desired system; 4) define users and operational scenarios of the proposed system; 5) present operational impacts of the proposed system; and 6) analyze advantages of the proposed system. This work demonstrates an innovative approach to developing a regional pilot weather information system, in which a systems engineering approach was used to incorporate stakeholder input and feedback throughout the iterative development process.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.112
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Ye, Zhirui
  • Shi, Xianming
  • Wang, Shaowei
  • Ballard, Lisa
  • Huang, Enzhen
• Conference:
  • Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2012-8-3 to 2012-8-6
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1096-1106
• Monograph Title: CICTP 2012: Multimodal Transportation Systems—Convenient, Safe, Cost-Effective, Efficient

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Ground transportation; Incident management; Information systems; Integrated systems; Road weather information systems; Weather conditions
• Identifier Terms: WeatherShare
• Geographic Terms: Northern California
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01501037
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784412442
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 12 2013 2:35PM