Updated: 02-11-2023
Source: China Meteorological News Press
On October, 18, the Belt and RoadLogistics-orientedMeteorological Service Platform(BRLMSP)was put into operation to facilitate the intermodal road and rail transport and path planning, supporting logisticsorientedmeteorological services for roads and rails on the domestic section of China-Europe Railway Express.
It is open to use when one searches for "Logistics Weather" WeChat App and gets registered there.When the places of departure, passage and arrival and the time of departure are entered, the platform will automatically plan the route and predict the risk of the bad weather that may be encountered along the way, automatically generating weather risk maps, tool-tips and broadcast voices to make the weather on routes accessible and known with either a click or a look ora listen".
According to Zhang Guoping,Chief Scientist of China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Public Meteorological Service Centre (PMSC), based on road logistics and transport oriented meteorological service, the platform has added a new function of service for railway transport. The accurate location by the platform construction team of more than 7,000 railway stations across the country with ultra-high resolution satellite images in atopologicalassociationwith railway transport routes and kilometre-scale meteorological service grids enables the delivery of meteorological services for logistics between and among domestic railway stations.
In addition to there fined forecasting services for 0-15 days, the platform has also added nowcasting services for high-impact weather such as hailstorms, convective gusts, short-range heavy precipitation and low visibility. It also supports users in adjusting their transit points, departure hours, preferred speeds and stopover duration, and in saving a new route as a fixed one to facilitate a direct next access.
It is CMA PMS that developed the platform, the construction team of which is working with the Hainan Provincial Meteorological Service Centre (HPMSC) forthe integration of products of assessing the meteorological conditions for the passage of water sections of multimodal transport, such as the Qiongzhou Strait, in an attempt to provide meteorological services for logistics transport between any two points in the future.
Editor: JIANG Zhiqing