Road Weather Management Performance Metrics:
Implementation and Assessment

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U.S. DOT ITS Joint Program Office

August 31, 2009

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Technical Report Documentation

1. Report No. FHWA-JPO-09-061	2. Government Accession No.		3. Recipient’s Catalog No. EDL #14492
4. Title and Subtitle Road Weather Management Performance Metrics: Implementation and Assessment			5. Report Date August 31, 2009
			6. Performing Organization Code
7. Author(s) Chris Cluett (Battelle), Deepak Gopalakrishna (Battelle), Leon Osborne (Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc.)			8. Performing Organization Report
9. Performing Organization Name and Address Battelle Seattle Research Center 1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98109-3598			10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)
			11. Contract or Grant No. DTFH61-06-D-00007; Task BA07-011
12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE Washington, DC 20590			13. Type of Report and Period Covered XXX
			14. Sponsoring Agency Code HOTO
15. Supplementary Notes Mr. Roemer Alfelor (COTM)
16. Abstract Since the late 1990’s, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has managed a program dedicated to improving the safety, mobility and productivity of the nation’s surface transportation modes by integrating meteorology into transportation operations and maintenance. Guided by goals in national legislation, FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program (RWMP) seeks to improve the level of service on roads and reduce vehicle crashes through a combination of road weather research, scientific innovations to invigorate the private sector weather enterprise, and multifaceted education and outreach programs to engage public transportation agencies. The RWMP conducted a study with stakeholders from the transportation and meteorological communities to define eleven performance measures that will enable the USDOT to determine the extent to which these goals are being met. This report discusses these performance measures and presents results that illustrate the social, scientific and organizational benefits that can be attributed to the RWMP.
17. Key Words Road Weather Management Performance Measures, Performance Evaluation, Output and Outcome Measures, SAFETEA-LU Section 5308		18. Distribution Statement No restrictions. This document is available to the public.
19. Security Classif. (of this report) Unclassified	20. Security Classif. (of this page) Unclassified		21. No. of Pages 82	22. Price N/A

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Acronym List

AMS	American Meteorological Society
ASOS	Automated Surface Observing Systems
ATIS	Advanced Traveler Information Systems
AWOS	Automated Weather Observing System
BASC	Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
CARS	Condition Acquisition and Reporting System
CITE	Consortium for ITS Training and Education
COMET	Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training
CVO	Commercial Vehicle Operations
DMS	Dynamic Message Signs
DOD	Department of Defense
DTN	Data Transmission Network
ESS	Environmental Sensor Station
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FHWA	Federal Highway Administration
HAR	Highway Advisory Radio ,
IIPS	Integrated Information and Processing Systems in Meteorology Conference
ITE	Institute for Transportation Engineers
ITS	Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITSA	Intelligent Transportation Systems America
ITS-JPO	Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
LOS	Level of Service
MADIS	Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System
MDSS	Maintenance Decision Support System
MODSS	Maintenance and Operations Decision Support Systems
MOE	Measure of Effectiveness
MtDOT	Montana Department of Transportation
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NDDOT	North Dakota Department of Transportation
NHC	National Hurricane Center
NHI	National Highway Institute
NHTSA	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NMVCCS	National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC	National Research Council
NWS	National Weather Service
OFCM	Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
OHPI	Office of Highway Policy Information
PFS	Pooled Fund Study
R&D	Research and Development
RFI	Request for Information
RFP	Request for Proposals
RISA	Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program
RITA	Research Innovative and Technology Administration
RWM	Road Weather Management
RWMP	Road Weather Management Program
SAFETEA-LU	Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act – A Legacy for Users
SDDOT	South Dakota Department of Transportation
STWDSR	The Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements
TMC	Traffic Management Center
TRB	Transportation Research Board
UND	University of North Dakota
USDOT	United States Department of Transportation
USGS	United States Geological Survey
WIST	Weather Information for Surface Transportation
WRTM	Weather Responsive Traffic Management
WTI	Western Transportation Institute

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