TRB Webinar: Road Weather and Flood Monitoring with the National Water Model

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, April 15, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that discussed how state departments of transportation may utilize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Water Model. Accurate, timely, and reliable forecasts are necessary for transportation decision makers to make informed decisions on re-routing traffic or closing roadways if flooding is imminent. Presenters discussed how to integrate this model into transportation management or maintenance operations in order to monitor road weather and flooding conditions.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Surface Transportation Weather.

The slides are available. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for a copy of the recorded webinar.

Webinar Presenters

• Silvana Croope, Delaware Department of Transportation
• Vincent Esguerra, California Department of Transportation
• Edward Clark, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Moderated by: Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, retired

Professional Development Hour Information

A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual For approved webinars, TRB’s webinar program awards Registered Continuing Education Provider (RCEP) Professional Development Hour (PDH) credits associated with participation only to the registered individual and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To receive PDH credits, please register as an individual and sign into the webinar from your personal computer. After doing this, you may join your group in a meeting room. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.

In addition, advance registration is available until just before the webinar starts. Once the webinar starts, you will be unable to submit your registration. Individuals that are registered for a webinar but do not receive their confirmation emails due to their organization’s internal firewalls should contact the TRB Helpdesk (MyTRB@nas.edu) for assistance in signing in.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in October 2018. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.