Update on Weather Impacts and WIST Results
(August 2006)
FCM-R26-2006
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Just over 3 years
ago, NOAA released its first report on improving surface transportation
safety and cost efficiency through improved weather and climate information
products. The 2002 WIST Report, Weather Information for Surface Transportation
(WIST)—National Needs Assessment Report, which provided the roadmap
for the Nation’s surface weather activities, helped catalyze a
rapid expansion of interagency, intergovernmental, and public-private
partnering to mitigate the safety and economic risks of “transportation
weather.” This update focuses on the status of transportation
weather issues in the Nation and the results achieved since that first
WIST Report. Although data collection and incident monitoring is still
limited, the available data do show that progress is beginning.