ROAD SURFACE CONDITION INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE WINTER SEASON

For the drivers who live in snowy areas, it is necessary to know road surface condition before driving in winter season. However, sometimes drivers feel difficulty to know real road condition because it varies place to place and time to time. To solve this problem, the road surface condition information system for the winter season was developed. In this system, ITV cameras are installed at roadside of several paths. The road surface images are to be distributed through Internet homepage, and then drivers can get real time information. This paper shows outline of the system, user's opinion and future development. According to the opinion of users, most of them drive carefully if they notice the road condition is slippery. However, the relation between the system and occurrence of traffic accidents was not clear

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2000 ITS Congress Association, Brussels Remarks: Paper 3093 presented at 7th World Congress on ITS
• Corporate Authors:

  Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

  ,    

  Hokkaido Daigaku. Transportation and Traffic Engineering Laboratory

  ,    

  NTT DoCoMo, Inc.

  ,    

  Transek AB

  Sundbybergsvagen 1A
  17 173 Solna,   Sweden 

  Heusch/Boesefeldt G.m.b.H.

  Aachen,   Germany 

  Sophia University

  Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  ,   Japan 

  Tokyo Daigaku. Seisan Gijutsu Kenkyujo

  ,    

  Tamkang University

  Department of Civil Engineering, 151 Ying-Chuan Road
  Tamsui, Taipai  Taiwan  251

  MVA Limited

  ,    

  SEMALY

  ,    

  University of Technology, Sydney

  P.O. Box 123
  Broadway, New South Wales  Australia  2007

  BPI - Consult GmbH

  ,    

  France Telecom

  ,    

  Maros Srl

  ,    

  Nissan Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

  ,    

  Real Automovil Club de Catalunya

  ,    
• Authors:
  • Motoda, Yoshitaka
  • Fujishima, Ken
  • Ogata, Yukio
• Conference:
  • World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (7th : 2000 : Turin Italy). Proceedings : from vision to reality [CD-ROM]
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Road weather information systems

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00808500
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Apr 12 2001 12:00AM