Institute for Transportation

About the research

Objective
This project involved determining the arrangements that exists in other countries between local and national government surface transportation agencies and their national weather forecasting agency. This was done through a questionnaire, sent to DOT personnel in nine countries, that requested information collected by the road agencies and the information supplied and protocol used by the forecasting service. Responses to the survey from these 9 countries form the basis for the final report.This project involved determining the arrangements that exists in other countries between local and national government surface transportation agencies and their national weather forecasting agency. This was done through a questionnaire, sent to DOT personnel in nine countries, that requested information collected by the road agencies and the information supplied and protocol used by the forecasting service. Responses to the survey from these 9 countries form the basis for the final report.