Commercial Capabilities and Services

Symposium on Weather Information for Surface Transportation

December 5, 2000

Maria A. Pirone

Director, Global Data Products

Our Vision for Surface Transportation

“Our vision, in support of the State and Federal Highway system of the future, is to display the same ‘value-added’ information to all individuals involved during the safe

operation of their vehicle.”

Operators ranging from

the general public to railway operators, highway personnel, bus

drivers and truckers.

Tailored Solutions

• Handling the needs-– Crew Dispatch– Route Planning– Traffic Management

• On a variety of surfaces-– Railways– Highways– Roadways

In a variety of ways

VECTOR Dispatch System

• Easy to use

• Products Tailored to Surface Transportation needs

• Satellite Delivered

• Designed for LAN implementation

Data Quality and Reliability

Reach via the Net - Intellicast• Among the top two weather web sites in the world and is

available 24 by 7.

• Draws over 1.5 million unique visitors a month and serves over 1.5 million pages of rich weather content per day (60 million pages per month)

• Delivers timely, rich, hyper local weather content with over 250,000 detailed, specialized weather graphics (eg, travel).

• Daily resource for logistic, agricultural, flight, marine, construction, recreational, and other professionals.

Timely, Local Weather• Hyper local, 15-minute radar

• Visible and IR imagery

• Local forecasts

• Forecast graphics

• Storm tracking

• Watches and warnings

Travel Weather• Travelers check current and forecast conditions before

planning a trip

Driving Conditions• Commuters check local road conditions before hitting

the highways

E-mail Service• Personalized, local

weather in HTML or Text format

• Daily and weekend planners

• Targeted mailings for specific lifestyle segments

• Weather and travel alerts

• New Hyper-Local Products– Unique products using proprietary high resolution models

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Vision for Tomorrow

• Travelers have access to the same types of information on a “free web site”

• Operations and planning personnel have access to more real-time information and more local, extended forecasts

• Decisions will be collaborative among the planners--State and Local

• Information is delivered using a variety of mechanisms- building redundancy into the picture

Web Sites

www.weatherindustry.org

www.intellicast.com

www.wx.com

www.accuweather.com

www.weatherdata.com

www.weather.com