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WEATHER AND INTERMODAL
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
JEFFREY F. PANIATI
PROGRAM MANAGERINTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMSU.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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Presentation Outline
• Evolution of ITS Program
• Integration, Interoperability, and Intermodalism
• An intermodal approach to land weather information
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Transportation Challenges
• 41,000 fatalities annually• Congestion will increase
by 50% in 10 years• “Just-in-Time” delivery
of goods• Increase “attractiveness”
of public transport
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Technology (ITS) Can Be Part of the Solution
The Information Age Changes Everything!
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Evolution of the ITS Program
1960’s 1980’s 1992 1998 2003Mobility
2000ISTEA TEA-21 Reauthorization
Seamless transportation network
Accelerating Deployment
VISION: A safer, more responsive, and more efficient national transportation system within 20 years thorough the application of ITS Technology.
DODDOT
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Intelligent Transportation Systems
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ITS is Founded on Principles of:
• Integration
• Interoperability
• Intermodalism
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Key to Integration: National ITS Architecture
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Intermodal Coordination
ITS Joint Program
Office
FHWA (Highway)
FTA (Transit)
FRA (Rail)
NHTSA (Traffic Safety)
OST (Secretary)
MARAD (Maritime)
FMCSA (Motor Carrier Safety)
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Weather Threats Across the Architecture
• Threats common across modes:+ Snow & Ice Precipitation+ Floods+ Low Temperatures+ High Winds+ Evacuation Conditions (e.g., hurricanes)
• Threats influencing some modes more than others:+ Conditions for air pollution (auto)+ Severe Local Storms (air)+ Inland vs. Sea Conditions (ports/maritime)+ Visibility (air & auto)+ High temperatures and rate changes (rail)
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Asymmetry Across Modes
• Aviation has a longstanding and intensive interaction with the National Weather Service
• Maritime also has a longstanding interaction, especially with the military
• On the other hand, land transportation:– Has been “beneath” the interests of meteorology
– Is institutionally and modally fragmented
– Needs route-specific threat information
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Weather and ITS
Opportunities for Intermodal Convergence of Weather and ITS:
• 511
• Intermodal Freight
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511• What is 511?
– Number allocated by FCC for dispensing traveler information
– Available to transportation agencies
• What are the intermodal aspects of 511?– Information can be for any mode, depending on the
capabilities of the local agencies
– FHWA working with 511 Consortium to define what 511 should include – guidance available in late 2001
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511 Implementation
• Document lessons learned from “lead adopters”
• Convert 300+ existing traveler information numbers
• 511 Model Deployment
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511 Deployment Example
• San Francisco/Bay Area (TravInfo)– Providing traffic, transit, carpool, vanpool,
parking and biking information on one phone number
– Same phone number in 6 area codes, covering 9 counties
– Serving as a “lead adopter”
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Freight Shipments - End-to-End
• Just-in-Time delivery…– Relies on end-to-end coordination of multiple
producers & shippers
– Is a balance between reducing inventory stockpiling and preventing production interruptions
– Depends on predictability of shipments
• Weather significantly affects predictability• All modes in the supply chain rely on
information about weather threats
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Challenges
• Institutional structures are not conducive to an intermodal approach– It’s a day-to-day challenge to think “intermodally”
– Most agencies have highway/transit/rail structures
– Operations are split across State & local agencies
• MPO’s & State planning provide a cross-modal perspective– Works well for planning, but less so for operations
• Market for land weather is highly fragmented
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Opportunities
• ITS is forcing transportation agencies to think and act intermodally– Technology – Federal Rulemaking– Operations-focus
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Next Steps
• Observing Systems – improvements will help land modes become full partners– Environmental Sensor Stations
– Differential GPS (total precipitable water vapor)
– “Infostructure” for the National Highway System
• Motivating Intermodal Coordination– Travel demand management (e.g., due to air quality)
– Just-In-Time strategies
– Traveler intermodal decision making (esp. due to weather)
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