1	New Brunswick – Nova Scotia Clarus Integration Plus AMEC Environment and Infrastructure Vision Météo Plus
2	Outline Introduction Project Goals and Rationale Project Results Close
3	Introduction FHWA Broad Agency Announcement No. DTFH61-10-R-00015 Research on Clarus System Data Issued 15 March, 2010 Awarded 27 September, 2010 Completed End September, 2011 Project Players…
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5	Project Goals Integrate ESS/RWIS data from New Brunswick (NB) & Nova Scotia (NS) into Clarus; Demo Clarus utility for road maintenance staff across Maine, NB, and NS using GIS industry standards; Run a Demo Workshop for maintenance leads; Prepare a vetted English-French lexicon of road weather data elements; Develop a bilingual Clarus interface; and Develop proposals for the integration into Clarus of Infra-Red (IR) Thermal Fingerprints (TF).
6	Project Rationale Expand Clarus coverage from I-95, across NB/NS to port of Halifax; major deep-sea ocean port open year round; Provide data-based tools to allow better tracking of road weather impacts of storms across the Maine, NB, & NS; Demo application of Open GIS Consortium standards (WMS and WPS) to integrate and display datasets from external sources; and Prepare Clarus to achieve design objective of integrating RWIS/ESS data from across North America by providing assistance with part of multi-lingual rendering requirement (English-French).
7	Project Results Nova Scotia acceptance letter – Paul Richard, November 2010; Cape Breton Highlands National Park acceptance e-mail – Claudie Maillet, January 2011;
8	Project Results New Brunswick challenges: staff changes, election & change of government, re-tendering; Agreed to inclusion with access-controlled demo system; Privately Operated Routes:
9	Project Results Demo Clarus utility for road maintenance staff across Maine, NB, and NS using GIS industry standards;
10	Clarus System Site
11	Clarus System Site
12	Demo System Site - Overview
13	Demo System Site – Trend Graph
14	Demo System Site – Trend Graph (2)
15	Demo System Site – French
16	Demo System Site – Tooltip (Quality)
17	Demo System – Technical Details NS/Cape Breton RWIS data submitted to Clarus (Mixon Hill) in CMML (Canadian Meteorological Mark-up Language); Used by Environment Canada to receive prov/terr data; Metadata provided as an Excel file; Demo System uses Open GIS Consortium standards: Accessing OGC WFS/WMS services for: Demo data layers come from Clarus; ESRI provided base map layers (similar to Google); and Approach supports display within other GIS viewers, e.g.: ArcGIS.
18	Demo System – Data Architecture
19	Workshop for Maintenance Leads Present on site: NB -Jay Cunningham Maine – Brian Burne NS - Paul Richard Clifton Curtis Brunway – Rob McCormack Mark Ireland FHWA – Paul Pisano AMEC – Andrew Nelson and Paul Delannoy Via WebEx MTO – Heather McClintock MTQ – Claude Lapointe Pelmorex – Sean Pinney Michel Brown MSC – Daniel Huang Yves Desrosiers Clarus– Brenda Boyce (Mixon Hill) Reviewers: Michael Adams (Weather Management Solutions, LLC) Max Perchanok (MTO)
20	Workshop for Maintenance Leads Add local time zones – Maine is on EDT, NB/NS on ADT; Filter or Flag old data to user; Add QC outcome indicator for user; Differentiate major road friction impact phenomena; Consider expanding to MA, NH and VT; Refresh data more frequently (up to shortest polling frequency in use); Show surface states for all sensors; Include a version number; and Standardize line colours on trend graph.
21	Project Results Prepare a vetted English-French lexicon of road weather data elements: Targets ESS/RWIS data & metadata for road maintainers; Based on NTCIP 1204 codes/data definitions, PIARC/WRA Dictionary, and AMEC NB Internet site; Drafted by Étienne Morin of Vision Météo Plus – December 2010; Reviewed by Benoit Pouliot of AMEC – January 2011; Reviewed by Roméo Poitras & NB DOT – March 2011; and Submitted to Clarus – June 2011. Develop a bilingual Clarus interface: Demo system uses terminology from lexicon.
22	Project Results Develop formats for integration into Clarus of Infra-Red (IR) Thermal Fingerprints (TF); Likely 3 selectable map layers, 1/scenario Extreme, Intermediate, and Damped; User selects scenario to post corresponding surface temperature variations along thermally-mapped roadway; Will propose and explore alternative formats and approaches with Clarus leads this month.
23	Project Results - Promotional Activities CLARUS project presentations: Annual Conference of the Québec Road Association (AQTR), 12 April in Montréal, Québec (in French); Annual Conference of ITS Canada, 14 June in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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