The Road Weather Information System uses sensors to collect data on roadway conditions.
| Stakeholder | Role | Role Status |
| New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) | Owns | Planned |
| ITS Roadway Equipment |
| Weather Service System |
| Surface Transportation Weather Service |
| Functional Object | Description | User Defined |
| Roadway Environmental Monitoring | 'Roadway Environmental Monitoring' measures environmental conditions and communicates the collected information back to a center where it can be monitored and analyzed or to other field devices to support communications to vehicles. A broad array of weather and road surface information may be collected. Weather conditions that may be measured include temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility. Surface and sub-surface sensors can measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other metrics. | False |
| Document Number | Title | Description |
| ITE ATC 5301 | Intelligent Transportation System Standard Specification for Roadside Cabinets | This standard specifies the characteristics of a modern controller cabinet for the ITS industry. |
| NEMA TS 8 | Cyber and Physical Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems | This specification describes how agencies and other transportation infrastructure owner/operators should implement cyber- and physical-security for ITS. |
| NYSDOT Region 8 HVTMC Transportation Management |
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