Concluding Remarks & Future Plans

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1 Concluding Remarks & Future Plans Paul Pisano, Team Leader Road Weather Management Federal Highway Administration Washington, DC MDSS Stakeholder Meeting Falls Church, VA August 10-11, 2006

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Concluding Remarks & Future Plans. MDSS Stakeholder Meeting Falls Church, VA August 10-11, 2006. Paul Pisano, Team Leader Road Weather Management Federal Highway Administration Washington, DC. MDSS: Is this the end?. In a word: NO! FHWA is continuing to support MDSS Technology Transfer - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Concluding Remarks& Future Plans

Paul Pisano, Team LeaderRoad Weather Management

Federal Highway AdministrationWashington, DC

MDSS Stakeholder MeetingFalls Church, VA

August 10-11, 2006

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MDSS: Is this the end?

• In a word: NO!• FHWA is continuing to support MDSS

– Technology Transfer• RFP Compilations• FHWA RoadShows

– Upgrading the prototype with a new pavement model and upgraded GUI• Release 5.0 CD (available summer ’07)

– Conferences (AMS, TRB , ITS-America, etc)

– MDSS Stakeholder Meeting in fall 2007!– Cost/Benefit Analyses

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Road Weather Activities in ‘07

• X-DSS Stakeholder Meetings– Summer Maintenance– Traffic Management

• National Summit on Surface Transportation Weather sponsored by FHWA, TRB, AMS and OFCM

• Eastern Snow Expo sponsored by FHWA, AASHTO, and Ohio DOT

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Contact Information

• Paul Pisano– Team Leader, Road Weather

Management– [email protected]– 202-366-1301

• Pat Kennedy– Transportation Specialist– [email protected]– 202-366-9498