SARI: Automatic Road Condition Monitoring to Provide Information to Drivers and Road Managers

The SARI project aims at bringing about a significant reduction in the number of accidents by providing drivers with better information about the driving difficulties they will be faced with. The project essentially targets secondary roads. The objective is to relate a level of risk of loss of control to the characteristics of the road in order to identify information that helps drivers moving from normal attention to increased attention and modifying their behavior. The difficulties taken into account by the project are physical discontinuities in the road; deterioration caused by wind and rain; discontinuities in road visibility and legibility. The research results, which can be exploited by the local authorities, take the following form: - 1. tools for diagnosing the road locations with the highest risk as regards loss of control and loss of visibility; - 2. tools for providing information and warnings about these zones; - 3. evaluations with regard to the acceptability of the proposed systems to drivers and their possible deployment by road managers. The first part of this article focuses on the local authorities’ expectations and involvement. The second part describes the diagnosis tools, developed for the moment.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Gallenne, Marie-Line
  • Goyat, Yann
  • Do, Minh Tan
  • Bremond, Roland
  • Botrel, Kattel
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced driver information systems; High risk locations; Highway safety; Prevention; Traffic crashes; Traffic incidents; Visibility; Warning systems; Weather conditions
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road conditions; Transportation infrastructure
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146662
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 2009 9:00AM