Each year, a number of new project ideas are fostered within the Aurora Program. They are then reviewed by the Executive Board for areas of common interest. Through this process, an annual work plan is developed that outlines the projects Aurora will fund in the coming year.
Projects currently underway within Aurora include
- Benchmarking the Performance of RWIS Forecasts
- Cold Weather Testing of the Halliday Road Grip Unit
- Development and Demonstration of a Freezing Drizzle Algorithm for ESS
- Development of a National Road Weather Testing Program
- Development of an RWIS Quality Assurance Monitoring System
- Evaluation and Inter-comparison of the Lufft R2S Sensor
- Evaluation of the Utah DOT Weather Operations Program
- Evaluation of Vaisala Spectro Pavement Sensor
- Further Development of Pavement Precipitation Accumulation Estimation System
- Incorporation of MDSS into Winter Weather Forecasting - Phase I
- Intelligent Image-Based Winter Road Condition Sensor - Phase III
- Knowledge Base for RWIS Programs and Environmental Data Loggers
- Low Cost Mobile RWIS
- Mobile Weather and Road Condition Reporting
- Multiple-Use ITS Data Collection Sites
- New Road Condition Sensor
- Next Generation RWIS for Canada
- Pilot Test of ESS Sensor Testing Guidelines
- Review of Friction Detection Technologies
- Road Weather Education Enhancements and Dissemination
- Road Weather Information Outreach / Second Peer Exchange
- RWIS Equipment Monitoring System - Phase II
- RWIS Leverage Opportunities
- RWIS Telecommunication Issues and Options
- Salinity Sensor Improvements and Development
- Support of the Clarus Initiative
- Technology Transfer of Alternative Inexpensive RWIS
- Winter Weather Severity Index Enhancements