RWM Training
RWMP courses intend to provide transportation professionals in highway maintenance and/or highway operations with opportunities to develop tools and strategies for addressing road weather problems. They also offer interactive introductions to anti-icing and winter maintenance, winter road maintenance management, winter roadway hazards and principles of overcoming them, weather basics, weather and roadway monitoring for anti-icing decisions, computer access to road weather information, and anti-icing practice in winter maintenance operations. Below is a list of important training courses for industry professionals.
- Principles and Tools for Road Weather Management: This course provides transportation professionals in highway maintenance and/or highway operations with training to develop tools and strategies for addressing road weather problems. Participants are exposed to various strategies for addressing road weather problems, including Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) and the development of crosscutting decision support systems to respond effectively to weather situations.
- RWIS Equipment and Operations: This course discusses RWIS initiatives and considerations, as well as explores individual state and local deployment challenges through workshops, exercises, and self-assessments, which provides participants with an action plan tailored for their specific needs.
- Weather-Responsive Traffic Management: This course provides information and guidance to transportation system managers and operators to help them effectively manage traffic flow and operations during adverse weather conditions. Specific guidance is provided on how to choose, design, and implement WRTM strategies that are appropriate for different roadway, traffic and weather conditions.
- RWM Capability Maturity Framework (CMF) Tool: Capability Maturity Frameworks are concepts with roots from the software development industry. Modeled after the AASHTO Systems Operations and Maintenance guidance, this tool assesses road weather management capability in the same six dimensions — Business Processes, Systems and Technology, Culture, Organization and Workforce, Performance Measurement, and Collaboration. However, in this tool, road weather management is viewed as a subset of the larger Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) program. The capability levels and the actions are more focused and defined from a traffic manager's perspective. When the current capabilities are determined, the tool provides a list of concrete actions for agencies to raise their capabilities to the desired levels.