The FHWA Road Weather Management Program has gathered hundreds of resources including research reports, articles and other publications. The prototype RWRI tool, which contains a database of those resources, has been developed to help transportation professionals find the appropriate road weather documents to suit their specific needs. The tool enables the users to navigate the database resources using a guided search, a menu of topics search or a keyword search. The prototype can be downloaded from the FHWA website
ops.fhwa.dot.gov/Weather/index.asp. Check out this new tool and let us know what you think. The testing and evaluation of the prototype will end this month, and we will be using all the comments we received from users to refine the tool to make it more useful and responsive to their needs. We plan to have the final version (and expanded database) available and ready for download from the FHWA website by September 2006.