Introduction to Winter Weather Outreach

Winter Weather Outreach can be used to share winter response plans, communicate route status updates, and solicit winter weather requests for service from the public.

Adverse weather conditions have a major impact on the safety of roadways and communities depend on efficient winter weather operations to keep roads safe and traffic flowing. As a result, state and local agencies spend more than 2.3 billion dollars on snow and ice control operations annually. Unfortunately, the increasing frequency and severity of winter storms is consuming a larger percentage of operations and maintenance budgets each year. Winter Weather Outreach is typically implemented by public works departments, road commissions, and departments of transportation that want to engage the public during the winter weather season and communicate route status updates during a winter storm.

The Winter Weather Outreach solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you to share winter weather plans, communicate route status updates, and solicit winter weather requests for service from the public.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Winter Weather Outreach requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 2.8 or later
• ArcGIS Survey123 Connect

Information products

Winter Weather Outreach includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Safe Winter Roads	An ArcGIS Hub site used by transportation and public works organizations to share winter weather plans, snow routes, and parking restrictions.	Not required
Route Status	A Media Map app used by transportation and public works organizations to share near real-time road status during winter weather events.	Not required
Snow Routes and Parking Restrictions	A Media Map app used by transportation and public works organizations to share snow routes, route priorities, and parking restrictions.	Not required
Snow Request	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by transportation and public works organizations to solicit winter weather service requests from the public.	Not required
Snow Request Manager	A Crowdsource Manager app used by operations managers to triage non-emergency snow and ice problems reported by the general public.	Contributor
Route Status Manager	An ArcGIS Web AppBuilder app used by operations managers and dispatch to provide manual route status updates.	Contributor
Winter Weather Data Management	An ArcGIS Pro project used by mapping technicians to manage an authoritative inventory of snow routes, parking restrictions and service areas.	Professional

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.1 (Apr 2022)	An update to symbol styles in the Snow Routes and Parking Restrictions web map.
1.0 (Nov 2021)	First release of Winter Weather Outreach.