Iteris ClearPath Weather Chosen by Oklahoma Department of Transportation for Road Maintenance Decision Support

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Two-year SaaS Contract to Provide Hyperlocal Weather Data to Support Road Maintenance Operations Statewide

  • Deal provides access to hyperlocal weather data to support critical road maintenance decisions
  • Initiative supports Oklahoma DOT's efforts to improve the safety and efficiency of the state's entire road network
  • Contract brings national coverage for Iteris MDSS services to 15 states and more than 50 municipalities and facilities, a more than 10-fold increase since 2015

Iteris, Inc. ITI, the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, today announced that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has selected Iteris' ClearPath Weather® solution to provide weather forecasting services for improved year-round road maintenance response covering the entire Oklahoma DOT road network throughout the state. The contract brings Iteris' national coverage for maintenance decision support system (MDSS) services to 15 states and more than 50 municipalities, a more than 10-fold MDSS increase in customer adoption since 2015.

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Iteris ClearPath Weather Chosen by Oklahoma Department of Transportation for Road Maintenance Decision Support (Photo: Business Wire)

The two-year sub-contract agreement, with Midstate Traffic Control, Inc., will give Oklahoma DOT access to high-resolution pavement weather forecasting and treatment alternatives, and MDSS services across the state during winter and summer weather events. In addition, Iteris will provide Oklahoma DOT with 24/7 access to the ClearPath Weather platform's severe weather advisories and alerting services, as well as direct access to Iteris meteorologists forecasting from the firm's Weather Operations Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

"We are proud to support Oklahoma DOT's goal of improving the safety and mobility of Oklahoma's road users by providing access to hyperlocal current and forecast weather data through the ClearPath Weather platform," said Ben Hershey, vice president, Agriculture and Weather Analytics at Iteris. "Vital data insights from ClearPath Weather will allow Oklahoma DOT to make the best maintenance decisions possible, both after extreme weather or storm events and on a day-to-day basis."

ClearPath Weather is based on Iteris' Highway Condition Analysis and Prediction System (HiCAPS™) pavement condition model and leverages proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) to access weather data. The cloud-based MDSS solution features an easy-to-use interface, and advanced visualization tools and mapping, which give state and local agency maintenance managers access to real-time information, such as looping radar, satellite imagery, weather forecasts, and route-specific weather and pavement conditions.

About Iteris, Inc.

Iteris is the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, turning big data into big breakthrough solutions. We collect, aggregate and analyze data on traffic, roads, weather, water, soil and crops to generate precise informatics that lead to safer transportation and smarter farming. Municipalities, government agencies, crop science companies, farmers and agronomists around the world use our solutions to make roads safer and travel more efficient, as well as farmlands more sustainable, healthy and productive. Visit www.iteris.com for more information and join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Iteris Forward-Looking Statements

This release may contain forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof and are based upon our current expectations and the information available to us at this time. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "should," "will," "can," and variations of these words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the awarded contract and about the capabilities of, and benefits in using, our ClearPath Weather solution. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict, and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.

Important factors that may cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, our ability to provision our services cost effectively; agency budgetary constraints and government budgetary issues and delays; general adoption of our solutions and technologies in the markets we address; contract cancellation; and the potential impact of product and service offerings from competitors and such competitors' patent coverage and claims. Further information on Iteris, Inc., including additional risk factors that may affect our forward-looking statements, is contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K, and our other SEC filings that are available through the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).

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