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Integrating emergency road weather into transportation management centers

Earlier today, the Federal Highway Administration released a new report calling attention to a critical linkage that the Salt Institute has been promoting for years: incorporating road weather emergency data into the "command post" transportation management centers that coordinate roadway operations. Snowfighting agency managers need to not only read the report, but raise its recommendations to policy-makers who allocate resources so that they can make sure that in snow and ice emergencies, the entire team is plugged-in and coordinated in its response effort