Board Chair

Max Perchanok
Ontario Ministry of Transportation

Members

• Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities
• Illinois DOT
• Indiana DOT
• Iowa DOT
• Michigan DOT
• Minnesota DOT
• Nevada DOT
• New York State DOT
• North Dakota DOT
• Ohio DOT
• Ontario Ministry of Transportation
• Pennsylvania DOT
• Quebec Ministry of Transportation
• Swedish Road Administration
• Tennessee DOT
• Utah DOT
• Virginia DOT
• Wisconsin DOT

Accomplishments

Aurora has

• helped develop standards and protocols for RWIS communications. (Partners included AASHTO, FHWA, and the National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) Working Group.).
• documented institutional challenges and barriers encountered by agencies in planning and deploying RWIS, as well as measures taken to overcome these barriers, successful RWIS deployment strategies, and productive public/private partnerships.
• developed straightforward presentation materials to assist members in presenting information to agency decision makers about the potentially dramatic effects of RWIS and the modernization of the National Weather Service on surface transportation.
• standardized methodologies for testing the accuracy and consistency of pavement sensors; Aurora is now conducting these critical tests.
• studied and documented the accuracy of pavement temperature sensors.
• developed computer-based RWIS training specific to particular geographic regions and agencies.

See Aurora's listing of completed projects for more details.

Examples of ongoing projects include

• benchmarking the performance of RWIS forecasts.
• investigating the use of laser sensors to detrmine surface conditions.
• investigating the variability of snow cover
• investigating RWIS telecommunications issues.

See Aurora's listing of ongoing projects for more details.