HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2015-12-09, Page 13Wednesday, December 9, 2015 • Huron Expositor 13
MTO launches one-stop website for winter driving conditions
Darryl Coote
Postmedia Network
The Ontario Ministry of
Transportation launched a
new website Tuesday it hopes
will be a one-stop shop for
drivers to receive all the
weather and road condition
information they need to
ensure safe winter driving.
The website, Trackmyplow.
com, is a multifaceted portal
that allows users to aggregate
and monitor OPP and 511
weather Twitter feeds,
receive Ontario government -
issued weather alerts and
see current images from
highway cameras.
It can also be region -specific
tailored and, yes, as its name
states, it allows the public to
track snowplows as they clean
provincial highways.
"This is all about giving the
driver access to information
before they set out on their
trip," said Ontario Ministry of
Transportation Director Kevin
Bentley from the Kincardine
Patrol Yard where the website
was announced.
Created for internal use last
year, the website currently ser-
vices the Simcoe and Owen
Sound highway maintenance
contract areas, with the latter
consisting of highways in Grey,
Bruce and Huron Counties as
well as parts of Wellington,
Perth and Dufferin Counties.
While the website is still
considered in testing, Bentley
said the ministry hopes to
expand its coverage as winter
progresses.
"We will start to build
around, go north and east of
Simcoe and Owen Sound.
We'd like to do it in a continu-
ous fashion," he said, with the
Huntsville area the most likely
destination next to be serviced
by the program.
Using technology already in
place such as the GPS equip-
ment in the roughly 35 snow-
plows in the Owen Sound
contract area and the coun-
ties' roadside cameras, most
of the cost of the program was
in software development and
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servers, Bentley said.
"We basically already had
that technology, it was just a
matter of creating the software
and taking the information
and displaying it to the public."
The ministry did install 140
new roadside cameras at all of
its road weather information
stations for the project, but the
cost of the program, Bentley
said, is "incremental" based on
how many contract areas the
program monitors.
"But for the two contract
areas it's several hundred
thousand dollars in terms of
the initial development
work," Bentley said.
An added benefit of the
project is it also monitors
contractor plow companies
on the 30 requirements they
must perform when snow
falls as the GPS equipment
monitors and displays the
location of all equipment
deployed.
"Using the GPS technol-
ogy we can track deploy-
ment as well as making sure
they are completing their
routes within the required
time," he said.
The public can monitor the
current location of a plow
and its last hour of driving,
while the images taken by the
stationary cameras refresh
every 20 minutes.
"We certainly have been
working with our contractors
to improve winter mainte-
nance," Bentley said, "and
we can do great work around
plowing, sanding and salting
the highways, and we can
talk to drivers about safe
winter driving, but we also
feel the one component that
was missing was a one-stop
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The website can be
accessed either through the
ministry's 511 Traveller Infor-
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clicking on link under the
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typing www.trackmyplow.
com directly into the browser.
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