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Pathfinder Peer Exchange Webinar January 16, 2019 This webinar will be recorded. Agenda Pathfinder: National Experience Roemer Alfelor, FHWA Shawn DeVinny, NWS NWP States Experiences, Outcomes and Impacts of Pathfinder

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Pathfinder Peer Exchange

Webinar January 16, 2019

This webinar will be recorded.

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Agenda

  • Pathfinder: National Experience

– Roemer Alfelor, FHWA – Shawn DeVinny, NWS

  • NWP States Experiences, Outcomes and Impacts
  • f Pathfinder

– Minnesota DOT – Joe Huneke – Wyoming DOT – Gabe Gutierrez and Mark Heuer

  • Other NWP Related Experiences
  • Questions and Answers
  • Closing
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3 North West Passage Peer Exchange Webinar

Pathfinder Overview

Roemer Alfelor (FHWA) Shawn DeVinny (NWS)

January 16, 2019

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FHWA Every Day Counts (EDC) Program

State-based model to identify and rapidly deploy proven but underutilized innovations to:

✓shorten the project delivery process ✓enhance roadway safety ✓reduce congestion ✓improve environmental sustainability ▪ EDC Rounds: 2-year cycles ▪ Currently 5th Round (2019-2020) - 10 innovations ▪ To date: 4 Rounds, 46 innovations

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EDC-4 Initiative (2017-2018)

Weather Savvy Roads - Promotes adoption of

two distinct road weather management solutions: (1) Pathfinder - brings together DOTs and the National Weather Service to provide consistent messaging on adverse weather and road conditions (2) Integrating Mobile Observations (IMO) - advanced vehicle-based technologies for road weather data collection and applications

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Video overview Pathfinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_Vza30NfA

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Pathfinder in a Nutshell

  • Collaboration between the National

Weather Service (NWS), State DOTs, and support contractors to share and translate forecasts into consistent public transportation impact messages

  • Disseminates road weather

information that is:

– clear, – concise, – consistent, and – impact-based.

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Pathfinder Guidelines

  • Describes 8 basic steps and associated requirements
  • Provides examples from State DOT implementations
  • Companion workbook walks team through the

implementation process

Identify Partners Determine Qualifying Collaboration Events Select Communication Mediums and Set Procedures Establish Point Person at Each Participating Entity Synchronize Forecast Schedules Establish Definitions and Create Shared Resources Create Shared Impact Message for the Public Conduct Post Event Review and Data Archiving

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Pathfinder Deployment States

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District of Columbia Georgia Ohio Michigan Maine Indiana Illinois Missouri Kansas Nebraska Montana Wyoming Utah Arizona California Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Idaho Oregon Washington Colorado South Carolina West Virginia New York

Mass .

  • Conn. Rhode. I.

Vermont

N.H.

Virginia Pennsylvania North Carolina North Dakota South Dakota New Mexico Florida Alabama Tennessee Kentucky Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma Texas Maryland Delaware

N.J

Nevada Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico Virgin Is.

Pathfinder Adoption (21) Active but not adopting Under EDC-4 Not Implementing

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Utah DOT Pathfinder Implementation Outcomes

  • Well forecasted, unified messages
  • Reduction in VMT during snow events
  • Public is more apt to modify their travel plans

▪ Changed schedule ▪ Changed route ▪ Did not travel ▪ Used transit

  • Trust is built among the public if all sources state the same

road impacts

  • DOT Maintenance is more effective, with less congestion on

the roads

  • Improved safety and mobility overall
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NWS-Utah DOT Collaboration Website

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WSR (PF and IMO) Toolkit

Access the toolkit from FHWA’s Road Weather Management Exchange Website! https://go.usa.gov/xnSqy

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NWS-FHWA Partnership

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The NWS Role

WILL

  • Help understand the evolution, timing and impacts of

hazardous weather events WILL NOT

  • Forecast road/pavement conditions nor provide decision

assistance for road treatment options

  • Provide roadway specific forecasts (e.g. amount of snow

accumulation on roadways, road surface temperatures).

  • Run specialized road weather modelling for public

dissemination.

  • Provide public facing road hazard mapping
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NWS Products/Services

NWS WEATHER UPDATES – Watches/Warnings/Advisories

  • Winter Storm
  • Ice Storm
  • High Wind

– Forecasts and evolution – Expected Impacts NWS CHATS – Chatrooms dedicated to Pathfinder Collaboration

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Contacts

Federal Highway Administration

  • Paul Pisano

Paul.Pisano@dot.gov

  • Roemer Alfelor

Roemer.Alfelor@dot.gov

  • Gabe Guevara

Gabriel.Guevara@dot.gov

  • Ray Murphy

Ray.Murphy@dot.gov National Weather Service

  • Roham Abtahi

Roham.Abtahi@noaa.gov

  • Shawn DeVinny Shawn.DeVinny@noaa.gov
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Minnesota Pathfinder

Joe Huneke| Road Weather Technology Section Supervisor January 16, 2019

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Minnesota Pathfinder

  • MnDOT signed up as part of Every Day Counts (EDC-4)

Weather Savvy Roads Initiative

  • Pathfinder workshop was held September 2017
  • Workshop consisted of reviewing current practices and

possible Pathfinder situations

  • A plan was developed to implement Pathfinder practices

for the winter of (2017/2018)

  • Identified stakeholders

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Stakeholders

  • MnDOT Maintenance Operations
  • Regional Transportation Management Center (RTMC)
  • National Weather Service (6 NWS offices)
  • Iteris (private weather forecaster)
  • MnDOT Office of Communications (Central, and District
  • ffices)

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Getting Started

  • With the guidance of NWS office a Minnesota Pathfinder

chatroom and training was created

  • MnDOT Pathfinder Implementation Team promoted

participation in chatroom within MnDOT Maintenance

  • perations
  • Worked with RTMC to provide direction on Changeable

Message Signs (CMS’s)

  • Criteria was established as to when a Pathfinder Weather

Briefing was to be held

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Pathfinder Weather Briefings

  • MnDOT Pathfinder Coordinator collaborates with

NWS and Iteris

  • Follow suggested criteria for winter storm

warnings/blizzards that will have a high travel impact

  • Time of day:
  • 11:00 AM
  • 3:00 PM
  • Other times determined by need and or special

situations

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Weather Briefing Agenda

  • Agenda for the call:
  • Pathfinder Coordinator will moderate the call
  • NWS will brief on the forecast
  • Iteris will brief on the Road Weather impacts
  • Questions should be asked to NWS & Iteris at this point
  • Traffic Operations will brief on the CMS deployment
  • Districts/Maintenance affected by warning will brief on their deployment

plan

  • Communications will share there plan of public outreach strategies
  • Any others will be given time to discuss anything else pertinent to the call

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MnDOT Pathfinder Benefits

  • Developed a great working relationship with NWS offices
  • Collaboration between MnDOT, Iteris, and NWS in

Pathfinder Chatroom

  • Maintenance Operations personnel have become

accustomed to using Pathfinder Chatroom

  • Forecasters value feedback from Maintenance Operations

personnel in the field

  • Positive conversation has enhanced the Pathfinder

Program

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Thank you again!

For more information on Minnesota Pathfinder Kathleen Schmidt kitty.Schmidt@state.mn.us Joe Huneke joseph.Huneke@state.mn.us

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Gabe Gutierrez: TMC Quality Control Analyst Mark Heuer: DayWeather Meteorlogist

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 To create site specific, pre-event DMS

messages for weather events that will impact the traveling public.

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 Dense Fog  Winter Weather Events (Heavy impacts, but

not at Warning Levels)

 Winter Storm Warnings  Blizzard Warnings  Snow SqualWarnings  High Wind Events

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 DayWeather Meteorologist submits a form to

the TMC with current times and locations of the event

 TMC Operators update the DMS.

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 When a TMC operator posts ANY conditions

  • n the DMS that warrants the use of flashing

beacons

▪ If conditions are that bad, we should avoid

distracting drivers with extra information that will be no use to them during the storm event.

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 When there is high confidence from the Day

Weather Meteorologist, or reports from NWS

  • f wind events that will carry WIND GUSTS
  • f 60+ MPH in “Light/High Profile Vehicle

Closure” zones.

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 Continuity of information ▪ If the time or impacts of the storm is adjusted by

the NWS or the TMC meteorologist, the operators must update their DMS to reflect.

▪ The forecasted weather did not live up to

expectations.

▪ We try to make sure the Pathfinder messages are only activated for weather events that will have “high” impacts to travel.

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 Gabriel.Gutierrez@wyo.gov

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Discussion

  • Meteorologists (On-Staff, Contract)
  • Sources uses for weather information (e.g. NWS,

WeatherNet)

  • Interaction/Coordination with NWS

– Conference calls, e-mailed briefings, NWS Chat? – How do you use NWS information (maintenance decisions and staffing, messages to the public)?

  • Pathfinder

– Has your state conducted a workshop? – What are the triggers to have a Pathfinder call? – What agencies attend Pathfinder calls? – Experiences with coordinated messaging?

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Closing

  • Contacts for more information

– Roemer Alfelor

  • Roemer.Alfelor@dot.gov

– Shawn DeVinny

  • shawn.devinny@noaa.gov

– Joe Huneke, Minnesota DOT

  • joseph.huneke@state.mn.us

– Gabe Gutierrez, Wyoming DOT

  • gabriel.gutierrez@wyo.gov

– Brandon Beise, North Dakota DOT

  • bbeise@nd.gov

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