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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
Magnifying glass reveals higher resolution imageMagnifying glass reveals higher resolution imagewith more detail (cities, towns, roads, etc)with more detail (cities, towns, roads, etc)
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