Status of Developing Land Transport Services in WMO Gerald Fleming, Chair, OPAG / PWSD

From the report of the TT meeting in Jan 2015 9.10 Use the opportunity of Congress to engage Members in plans to develop a roadmap to address this issue and report back to Congress in 4 years with a review of: current situation; Potential future needs and improvements; 9.11 Subsequent development may be based on Quality management, competency and standardization Impact-based forecasting and risk based warning Demonstration of Social and Economic Benefits of land transport services

WMO Congress, June 2015 Congress agreed that the travelling public and various organizations and agencies tasked with different aspects of managing safe and efficient road and rail transport systems needed access to fit for purpose weather and related environmental services.

WMO Congress, June 2015 Congress recalled that this issue had been addressed by EC-66, which, while acknowledging the potential benefits from improved services to this important sector, had also expressed a desire to investigate in the first instance the current and emerging needs of the transport sector.

WMO Congress, June 2015 On reviewing the outcome of this consultation process (i.e. the TT meeting in Jan 2015), Congress requested the Executive Council to examine the potential benefits for Members in this regard and propose the most appropriate means of pursuing this initiative.

WMO Executive Council June 2016 IMPLEMENTING CRITICAL AREAS OF FOCUS IN THE WMO STRATEGY FOR SERVICE DELIVERY The Council recognizes the following as areas of particular focus in the implementation of the Strategy as identified by Cg-17:

WMO Executive Council June 2016 Thematic areas: (a) Megacities and large urban complexes; (b) The Agricultural sector for food security; (c) The health sector, building on experience of past projects by the Public Weather Services Programme; (d) The energy sector for the efficient operation, energy management, and generation of renewable energies; (e) The water sector in the context of hydrological services; (f) Climate services through the Climate Services Information System (CSIS) implemented by the Commission for Climatology (CCl) in close collaboration with CBS; (g) Meteorological services for aviation; (h) Land transport and; (i) Marine meteorological services for safety of life at sea and vulnerable populations on coasts.

WMO Executive Council Has discussed the provision of services to Land Transport on a number of occasions Has been generally very wary of committing to new programme areas for reasons of resources etc

WMO Executive Council Executive Council would need to have a clear view of the “user requirements” for meteorological services for land transport before agreeing to any significant programme activity in this area.

Meteorological Services for Land Transport How best to progress?? Provide some evidence (through a survey or otherwise) of a clear user requirement and potential benefit that can be met through the work of NMHSs; Focus on existing services provided (the building blocks) and consider to what degree the WMO can support the improvement of these; Examine the Public-Private aspects of service provision – Land Transport could become an excellent example of PPP in service provision.

Meteorological Services for Land Transport How best to progress?? Maintain a focus on the differing needs of the developing and the developed world; Proposals should promote or support the evolution towards carbon-free transport systems More use of efficient public transport; Improving the safety of bicycle use; Are there specific needs of electrical cars etc??