Guidelines for Deploying Connected Vehicle-Enabled Weather Responsive Traffic Management Strategies

State and local Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are interested in providing effective traffic management and operations strategies to mitigate the roadway mobility and safety problems due to adverse weather. Weather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM) strategies such as variable speed limits, vehicle restrictions, signal timing, and traffic advisories are used today to provide travelers with advanced temporal and spatial notification of hazardous conditions that may be encountered as well as appropriate actions to take in response to the existing or forecast weather conditions. Improved connectivity between the transportation infrastructure and vehicles and among vehicles themselves presents unique capabilities to enhance these WTRM strategies by: (1) enabling communication (i.e., transfer of data) between and across users and transportation agencies; (2) expanding the coverage of the transportation network; and (3) providing more disaggregated information on the network. Connected Vehicle (CV)-Enabled WRTM (CV-WRTM) is an approach that leverages this connectivity to develop and implement advanced capabilities for WRTM. Moving to this next generation of WRTM can take on different forms. This document identifies and describes three distinct, but related, pathways that could be taken: Pathway 1- Intelligent Agency Fleets, Pathway 2- Connected Vehicles, and Pathway 3- Connected Third Party Fleet Services and Connected Travelers. This document provides high-level guidelines on advancing connected vehicle enabled WRTM using these three implementation pathways. More detailed concepts and procedures for selected CV-WRTM Applications are provided to illustrate the pathways.

• Summary URL:
  https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/everydaycounts/edc_5/docs/wrm-factsheet.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31928
• Corporate Authors:

  ICF International

  1725 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000
  Washington, DC  United States  20006

  Leidos

  Reston, VA  United States 

  Federal Highway Administration

  Road Weather Management Program, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  Washington DC,   United States  20590

  Department of Transportation

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Gopalakrishna, Deepak
  • Serulle, Nayel Ureña
  • Kitchener, Fred
  • Garrett, Kyle
  • Newton, Diane
• Publication Date: 2016-11-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 93p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Connected vehicles; Guidelines; Implementation; Road weather information systems; Weather conditions
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01660578
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-JPO-17-478
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-12-D-00045; Task O&ITS T-0001
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 20 2018 9:31AM