StormTrak™ FEATURES :
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Tracks COSTS (attendance, vehicles, abrasives) throughout the STORM EVENT
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Links citizen complaints directly to the affected route
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Tracks use of contractors and contracted equipment on roadways & abrasives used
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Monitors Roadway conditions (roadway closures, icy, heavy snow, light snow...)
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Records Time & Attendance for your employees
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Creates FEMA-Accepted REPORTS for expense reimbursement
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Web version for easy IT management on your Intranet
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EASY TO USE - your staff can easily manage all storm activities!
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Shares data with your ARCInfo or MAPInfo programs
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Asset Management
Manage your entire fleet of equipment - ranging from loaders, large capacity spreaders and plows, to light plow and inspection vehicles - used specifically for snow removal operations.
Distinguish between contracted equipment, government owned and operated equipment, unique rate structures, equipment age, and have a documented record of all problem and repairs for each vehicle.
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Resource Management
Personnel: Manage your manpower. Select the skills (CDL drivers, equipment operators, management) and necessary labor force needed to combat wintry and emergency roadway conditions. Identify roadway and route deployment plans in advance -- providing management with a clear and organized approach to responding to emergency situations.
Abrasives Identify and track the various type of abrasives available for dispersing on roadways - including salt, sand, or chemical ice-ban - and their associated per unit costs. These resources are then made available during snow "events" -- allowing for full accountability of usage.
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Time and Attendance:
Track who is working, where they are working, shift changes, when the individual clocked in and when they clocked out. Know instantly how many CDL drivers you have available, and any routes or roadways that they have been trained on. Find out the "exceptions" - such as where you have insufficient labor resources.
Monitor your ongoing costs throughout the weather storm - with a final cost tally available IMMEDIATELY at the end of your snow event. Distinguishes between Union and NonUnion, and provides features to track COMP TIME, regular, overtime and doubletime hours and costing.
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Year-round Event Monitoring:
Now, manages resources year round – including events for Flooding, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Terrorism etc.
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StormTRAK™ is an all-season decision support tool that extends your ability to manage:
- Call center operations
- Time & attendance
- Asset & resource management
- Dispatch and Emergency management
- Legal & budget justifications
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Route and Roadway monitoring
If your organization uses ARCInfo or MAPInfo products -- you can directly access StormTrak data for creating map layers. This allows you to view your vehicle movements, road way conditions, neighborhoods or other areas of concerns for your citizens - from the maps and systems that you currently have in place.
Locate which roadways and routes have been plowed or abrasives applied, which vehicles have been dispatched and the drivers of each of these vehicles. Quickly identify roadways that do NOT have any vehicles deployed, track the number of passes on specific routes, and the condition of each route (icy, heavy snow, light snow, wet)..
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Cost accounting / FEMA reporting
Throughout the duration of the storm, costs for all resources (personnel, abrasives, equipment fleet) can be monitored. To justify expenditures, summary and detail supporting reports can be provided to elected or regulatory review officials - at the press of a button. Concise, easy to read reports can be viewed for the entire duration of the snow event, or comparisons can be distinguished between contracted and government operations, within various government administrations, along specific routes - and many other 'combinations' to meet the level of complexity or focus that you desire.
Unique date and time range reports to meet the stringent requirements by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) for supporting detailed operation logs, are completely built-in to the StormTRAK™package.
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Event History Logs
Has this ever happened to you?
Your organization has mobilized both personnel and resources for anticipated wintry conditions, and your contractors are on standby. All available weather service providers have predicted a BIG storm. After 8 hours of "standby" the storm eventually misses your locality - and you send your staff and contractors home. Your organization has spent $25,000 in overtime, contracted and equipment costs -- and yet there was no wintry weather that precipitated. How do you justify these costs?
With our Event History Logs feature - we provide you with tools to record changes to weather forecasts, updates to resource mobilizations, any official actions (such as school closings or government delay, early releases), as well as the inner-management decision making process -- so that you have complete justification for all of the actions that you take during the "crisis". Information is easily recorded through the system, and can be reported in chronological date and time order. You will not have to worry about trying to remember the decisions that were made 2 days ago...as StormTRAK™ greatly simplifies recording decisions made!
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Call Center / Complaint tracking
After all of the emergency roadways have been sufficiently cleared, the residential roadways are targeted for plowing and/or spreading operations. To manage any requests for snow removal service, or complaints - StormTRAK™ includes a built-in call center tool, that records complaints- and associates each complaint with it's designated route. This allows your management team to instantly identify and notify the driver / vehicle who is covering the route - to respond to the complaint on their next "pass" through the neighborhood.
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Weather Services Portal
StormTrak is setup as a "portal" allowing you to have access to all tools that you need to manage a snow event -- including online weather services - from a single software package. You can rely utilize generic web sites such as National Weather Services, Accu-Weather Services or the Weather Channel -- or your StormTRAK™ software can link to more specific weather services or pavement sensors (such as SSI). Access to all weather and pavement monitoring can be found in one location, at your fingertips.
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DRIVER Maps & Instructions
By posting your digitized maps (JPG or GIF format) to a web address, you can link each DRIVER MAP within StormTRAK™-- allowing your drivers and management team to be able to view and print THEIR driving instructions - directly from one source. This makes it easy to reprint maps, and quickly disseminate to your drivers.
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Online tutorial / Help
We provide a comprehensive online HELP ASSISTANT -- that is fully animated, easy to use and view, and reduces hands-on training time to a minimum. The online tutorial and help, describes each screen and each step for using the application. |
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City of Baltimore, MD features StormTRAK™ during it's annual SNOW EXPO on October 30, 2004. 
