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Intro to Participant Workbook (showing original 1.5 day format)
Course Offering. A RWIS training course is being offered in conjunction with the 2007 National Rural ITS Conference. Held October 10th from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, the course is intended for federal, state, and local transportation, traffic, operations/ITS and safety engineers; maintenance personnel; and planners who are involved in RWIS or ITS systems. While originally a 1.5 day course, it has been reduced to fit into a 1-day format.
Course Description. The design and deployment of Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) represents a significant time and money commitment by transportation agencies. Field personnel are often not fully informed of the maintenance and financial impacts of these systems, as well as design and deployment considerations that must be made. This course is actually a shortened version of a 1.5 day course offered through the Rocky Mountain Chapter of ITS America. The course starts with an overview of RWIS; including an explanation of why these devices are important, and how they can and will contribute to improving the safety and operations of our nation's roadways. We then discuss design and deployment issues for RWIS equipment including power, communications, and peripheral integration considerations; siting considerations related to the larger RWIS network and financial considerations including benefit versus cost discussions, procurement issues, and data value and ownership. The instructional phase of the course finishes with a discussion of the operational and maintenance issues of RWIS equipment including equipment calibration, maintenance access, vendor support/maintenance, equipment life cycle and planned replacements/upgrades. The course finishes with a brief hands-on exercise where local issues are overlaid on example case studies. Participants are divided into small workgroups to create an implementation plan in response to the particular case study example.
Cost. The cost for the course is $200.00 per attendee and includes morning and afternoon breaks as well as lunch. See the Registration Form found at the back of the NRITS Registration Packet or go to the Conference Registration webpage to register. Please note that you do not need to register for the NRITS conference to attend. Simply select the RWIS training box on the 1st page of the registration form and complete the payment section.