In the News :

City of Baltimore, MD (population 651,154) Latitude 39.290N , Longitude -76.612W

October 30, 2004. City of Baltimore, MD features StormTRAK during it's annual SNOW EXPO.
With 2000 miles of roadways, the City of Baltimore installs StormTRAK to manage storm event costs. StormTRAK debuts during Snow Expo. 400 drivers, and nearly 100 administrative and management staff participated in Baltimore's annual Snow Expo - to showcase new equipment, and perform a dry run of the newly installed StormTRAK Storm Operations Management software. While the drivers became re-acquainted with their routes, the management and administrative staff operated the SnoTrak software - and quickly captured costs for attendance, vehicles, salt loads and roadway passes. The event was a huge success - and management was thrilled with how quickly the staff (who had only "just" seen the system for the first time in the prior week) had learned the system.

City of Alexandria, VA (population 128,283), Latitude 38.804N, Longitude -77.047W

January, 2004. City of Alexandria, VA uses StormTRAK to monitor and manage costs during storm events.
No sooner was the on-site training completed - that within hours a REAL snow event was in effect. The City of Alexandria staff successfully tracked and managed costs for it's first snow event without a hitch. The City of Alexandria ARCView team has created an interface to SnoTrak allowing for it to display vehicle location, and citizen complaints on their internal ArcView maps.

Prince Georges County, MD (population 801,515) - 1700 miles of roadways

Prince Georges County receives FEMA reimbursement after using StormTRAK during Hurricane Isabel.

September, 2003. Hurricane Isabel devastated the Maryland region - leaving much of the region without power for 10 days, along with many downed trees. Prince Georges County used SnoTrak to manage it's Hurricane Storm Operations - and track resources and costs during a multi-day storm event. At the end of the storm, Prince Georges County used SnoTrak to justify costs and reporting to FEMA for expense reimbursement.

January, 2004. The Information Technology team at Prince Georges County interfaces SnoTrak to their public-access website for retrieving citizen roadway complaints.

Washington, DC (population 572,059), Latitude 38.9N, Longitude -77.016W

District of Columbia uses bar-codes to track salt usage from domes.

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is the lead agency for snow removal. DDOT works closely with the Department of Public Works (DPW) to clear snow and ice from District roadways and bridges. Together, DDOT and DPW clear and make safe approximately 1,100 roadway miles, and have the authority to declare and enforce snow emergencies.

To better track the loads of abrasives removed from salt / sand domes, DC implemented a bar-code technology that was installed on each of the vehicles. Thus, when the vehicle arrives for a pick-up, the vehicle information is scanned using a Psion hand-held device. This information is then batch uploaded to the SnoTrak database at the end of each shift.

City of Laurel, MD (population 19,960) Latitude 39.099N, Longitude -76.848W

November, 2004. The City of Laurel is preparing it's team for snow removal, and is completing it's staff training on the use of StormTRAK - for managing storm costs.