KIPDA Regional ITS Architecture

Element: National Weather Service


Description: This terminator provides weather, hydrologic, and climate information and warnings of hazardous weather including thunderstorms, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter weather, tsunamis, and climate events. It provides atmospheric weather observations and forecasts that are collected and derived by the National Weather Service, private sector providers, and various research organizations. The interface provides formatted weather data products suitable for on-line processing and integration with other ITS data products as well as Doppler radar images, satellite images, severe storm warnings, and other products that are formatted for presentation to various ITS users.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: NOAA
Functional Areas:
(Linked to Functional Requirements)

ITS elements that are mapped only to terminators do not have ITS functional requirements allocated to them.

Interfaces:
(Flows)

INDOT District Offices-Maintenance and Construction
KYTC County Maintenance Garage
Louisville Metro Public Works
TRIMARC Traffic Management Center
Service Packages: MC03 - Road Weather Data Collection - INDOT
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - TRIMARC
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - INDOT
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - INDOT
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - Louisville Metro
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - TRIMARC/KYTC
Mapping: Weather Service