TRANSMAP: An Integrated, Real Time Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting System for Highways and Waterways in RI (Rhode Island), December 2001;Final rept

摘要

This report summarizes the work accomplished during the second year of a three-year project to develop a state of the art, integrated environmental monitoring and modeling system to provide data and information to support the operation, management, and evaluation of various land and marine based transportation systems in RI. TRANSMAP features an open architecture, industry standard software tools and modules, an embedded geographic information system (GIS), standardized data handling protocols, an environmental data analysis and presentation system, and access for linkage to models and management tools. The second year project objectives were to (1) to complete access to the RI roadway weather information system data and add an additional weather and pavement monitoring system with a remote processing unit to enhance the RI DOT network, (2) extend and improve TRANSMAP by enhancing its data processing and analysis capability and upgrading the internet/web access to the system, (3) continue the development of the thermal energy balance model by linking it with monitoring station data to allow forecasting of road conditions at selected locations, (4) finalize access to EPA and NOAAs ALOHA contaminant transport model to allow users to predict the atmospheric plumes and zones of potential health hazards from highway spills of hazardous chemicals, (5) extend the system to allow the routine import of GIS data, and (6) to initiate the transfer of the technology developed in this project to private industry for commercialization.