VS07: Road Weather Motorist Alert and Warning
Need Area Description
This service package collects road weather data from connected vehicles and uses that data to develop short term warnings or advisories that can be provided to individual motorists. The information may come from either vehicles operated by the general public and commercial entities (including passenger cars and trucks) or specialty vehicles and public fleet vehicles (such as snowplows, maintenance trucks, and other agency pool vehicles). The raw data will be processed in a controlling center to generate road segment–based data outputs. The processing will also include a road weather motorist alerts algorithm to generate short time horizon alerts that will be pushed to user systems and available to commercial service providers. In addition the information collected can be combined with observations and forecasts from other sources to provide medium (next 2–12 hours) or long term (more than 12 hours) advisories through a variety of interfaces including web based and connected vehicle based interfaces.
Need Area Type
Environmental
Service Package
VS07: Road Weather Motorist Alert and WarningIncludes Needs
| Number | Need |
|---|---|
| 01 | Traffic Operations needs to collect environmental data from private, commercial, specialty and public fleet vehicles in order to provide motorists with advisories and alerts. |
| 02 | Traffic Operations needs to process current and historical data from multiple sources in order to generate road weather motorist warnings and advisories. |
| 03 | The Driver needs to be able to receive road weather warnings and advisories from Traffic Operations . |
| 04 | Traffic operations need be able to collect road conditions and weather data from environmental sensors on or in the vicinity of the roadway. |