9.4.3: Process Environmental Data

This process shall receive data from the Collect Environmental Data function and shall filter, fuse, and process the many types of environmental data that are collected, as prescribed using parameters from the M&C Center Personnel. This process shall also receive road weather information from other maintenance and construction management systems. The process shall perform quality control on the data received and develop source reliability information. The process shall use the various data inputs to develop a view of current and predicted road weather and road conditions. This processed environmental information shall be forwarded to another process for dissemination to other agencies. The information shall be provided to the weather service and the surface transportation weather service. The information shall be provided to other Manage Maintenance and Construction processes for use in determining treatment needs, for providing decision support, and for scheduling maintenance and construction activities.

This process is associated with the Maint and Constr Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• MCM Environmental Information Processing

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• env_data_processing_parameters
• env_and_weather_data
• env_info_for_decision_support
• env_info_for_maint_needs
• env_info_for_mcv_mgmt
• env_info_for_road_network
• env_info_for_scheduling
• processed_env_info
• processed_env_info_for_display
• fomcm-road_weather_info
• tstws-env_info
• tws-env_info