TxDOT El Paso District Integrated Weather Monitoring Prediction Systems
Status
Future
Description
Represents future integrated weather monitoring/prediction systems. The systems use Environmental Sensor Stations (ESSs) to collect real–time weather conditions data, such as wind speed and direction, precipitation, water level conditions, humidity, visibility, and pavement temperature. The data is transmitted to automated warning systems, the traffic operations center, and other maintenance/operations facilities for decision support. This tool is also coordinated with the National Weather Service to predict inclement weather conditions. Systems are proposed for the US–67 Corridor.
Stakeholders
| Stakeholder |
Role |
Role Status |
| TxDOT |
Owns |
Future |
Physical Objects
Functional Objects
| Functional Object |
Description |
User Defined |
| Roadway Environmental Monitoring |
'Roadway Environmental Monitoring' measures environmental conditions and communicates the collected information back to a center where it can be monitored and analyzed or to other field devices to support communications to vehicles. A broad array of general weather and road surface information may be collected. Weather conditions that may be measured include temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility. Surface and sub–surface sensors can measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures. |
False |
Physical Standards
| SDO |
Document # |
Title |
User Defined |
| ITE |
ITE ITS Cabinet |
ITS Standard Specification for Roadside Cabinets |
False |
| NEMA |
NEMA TS 8 |
Cyber and Physical Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) |
False |
Interfaces To
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