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ensure accuracy. Where the Weather Meets the Road: A Research
Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services knowledge regarding
road weather conditions. Following the discussion in this
chapter of the affects weather has on the roadway environment,
the committee’s vision for the road weather system of the future
is presented in Chapter 2. A review of the current activities
and technologies relevant to the meteorological and
transportation communities is provided in Chapter 3, including
current observational and modeling capabilities of both weather
and the roadway environment, forecasting capabilities,
operational activities, and tools. Chapter 4 builds on the
previous chapter by presenting the committee’s recommendations
for achieving the vision of the future operational road weather
system based on identified gaps and new areas of