In recent years, DOTs have increasingly used the practice of crowdsourcing to gather real-time information on weather and road conditions as a supplement to other road condition reporting techniques (e.g., field personnel reports and ITS devices). In a new report, Citizen Reporting of Current Road Conditions, the Road Weather Management Program has documented five DOTs’ experiences with a particular type of crowdsourcing: one in which the DOTs build the interface and train citizen reporters. Because these citizen reporting programs involve the training of recruited reporters, the quality and frequency of the road condition data is often more usable relative to data from other crowdsourcing techniques, such as mining social media. Moreover, because the data ingest system is built by the DOT, the reports can often be seamlessly ingested and disseminated through existing internal data management systems or traveler information outlets. An upcoming report (expected in the fall) will document key similarities and differences between three different crowdsourcing approaches: citizen reporting, social media mining and third-party smartphone applications.