ROAD WEATHER INFORMATION - A NEW APPROACH TO ENRICH DRIVER INFORMATION

Weather incidents like thunderstorms and strong showers, fog, chilling humidity, and snowfall do not only represent serious safety risks, they also prevent the driver from keeping the desired driving speed. The newly developed service "Road Weather Information System (RWIS)", which could enhance the BMW Assist V-Info+ service, uses different data sources (radar, roadside weather detection systems, Extended Floating Car Data - XFCD, etc.) to generate immediate, route related messages of driving behaviour influencing weather and road conditions and to disseminate them via RDS-TMC, in future via Digital Broadcast / TPEG. The RWIS distribution chain - from data generation to information representation in the car - will be explained and methods of quality control will be presented. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.

• Authors:
  • NEUHERZ, M
  • OBERT, M
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13th ITS WORLD CONGRESS, LONDON, 8-12 OCTOBER 2006

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Driver information systems; Drivers; Intelligent transportation systems; Rain; Snow; Warning systems; Weather
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 8763: Driver information; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 2507: Rain; 2552: Snow; 9113: Warning; 2545: Weather
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I70: Traffic and Transport; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01083774
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 7 2008 12:02PM