Developments in Weather Responsive Traffic Management Strategies

This report provides a comprehensive overview of weather-responsive traffic management practices. It focuses on what weather responsive traffic management (WRTM) strategies exist, where they have been used, the benefits realized, what improvements are needed, and how to implement and evaluate them as part of transportation operations. The report also contains concepts of operations and high-level requirements that an agency can use to design and develop advanced WRTM strategies. Guidance was also developed to assist in evaluating the benefits and performance of several WRTM strategies.

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