Approaches and Gaps in Weather-Responsive Traffic Management: U.S. and European Perspectives

Traffic management and operations during adverse weather is a major challenge for transportation agencies around the world. Weather is a common cause of crashes and delays on the highways everywhere, accounting for large number of fatalities and hours of delay every year in the US and Europe. Significant improvements have been made in the development and implementation of weather-responsive traffic management strategies to alleviate the impacts of weather, both in the US and Europe. These include weather and traffic data collection and integration, traffic analysis and modeling, human factors analysis and performance evaluation. This paper will describe the state-of-the practice in weather-responsive traffic management in the US and Europe including the types of strategies, systems and tools being used, their similarities, and their effectiveness in traffic operations. The paper will also describe the relevant research activities being undertaken in both countries and how they can coordinate and benefit from each other’s efforts. Finally, the gaps in current practices and research related to weather-responsive traffic management are identified, and recommendations on how these gaps can be filled are described

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AH010 Surface Transportation Weather.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Alfelor, Roemer
  • Billot, Romain
  • El Faouzi, Nour-Eddin
  • Pisano, Paul A
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Data collection; State of the practice; Traffic flow; Traffic models; Weather conditions
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01476626
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-1499
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 22 2013 2:55PM