# Presentation: 410167

## Weather Information for Surface Transportation (WIST)

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

## Overview 

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

## National Weather Service Modernization

##   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 “thresholds”...Temperature, 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**	****  ****	****	****	**

## 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 transportation...can be applied to solve some** **of the problems associated with surface transportation...”

## GeoWeatherTM 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**

## 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

## GeoWeatherTM SolutionsGIS Data Sources

**GeoWeather****TM**** Solutions****GIS **_**Data**_** Sources**

- Remember this bridge

## How GeoWeather WorksEvent/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**

## Specifying Areas of Interest

**Specifying Areas of Interest**

- The whole state

- Buffer around
- Interstates

- Any AOI

## Specifying an Area of Interest

- Area of Interest

## Nowcasting Event - Criteria - Action

**Environmental Inputs**

**Weather overlay on assets map**

**GIS**

**50**

**7**

**72**

**004**

**NEXRAD Doppler Radar**

**Surface**
**Observations**

**Lightning**
**Observations**

## ForecastingEvent - Criteria - Action

**Analysis**

**12 hour**

**24 hour**

**time**

**lat**

**lon**

**GIS/WX**

**Mon**

**Tue**

**Wed**

**Thu**

**Fri**

**2AM**

**12AM**

**4AM**

**6AM**

**8AM**

**10AM**

**12PM**

**2PM**

**4PM**

**6PM**

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**WX**

**GIS**

**Action**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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)**

## GeoWeatherTM Solutions SummaryReal-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.