Integrating Connected Vehicle Data in Road Network Weather Management Systems: Snowplow Routing Application
A focus of road network weather management systems is on integrating emerging communication technologies into transportation agencies’ weather-responsive efforts in order to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency. An important opportunity and challenge is to bring connected vehicle (CV)-enabled technology elements into real-time operational decisions for weather-responsive management strategies. The objective of this study is to assess the benefit of incoming data from CVs running on a network in a weather-responsive management system (WRMS). The paper includes a framework for implementing an Analysis/Modeling/Simulation (AMS) system to support WRMS applications on CV-enabled road networks. Using the Chicago testbed network, the study demonstrates improvements in estimation and prediction that enable several dynamic management applications at a network level. Focusing on snowplow operations as a specific management application, practical approaches are developed to support operational decisions for their specific sites, strategies, and conditions based on on-line, real-time data and forecasts. The test outcomes show that real-time CV data can contribute to providing timely and disaggregated traffic states of the network under consideration, and to monitoring ongoing snowplow operations and performance.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AKR40 Standing Committee on Winter Maintenance.
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Corporate Authors:
Transportation Research Board
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Authors:
- Kim, Eunhye
- Mahmassani, Hani S
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0000-0002-8443-8928
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
- Date: 2021
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 27p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Connected vehicles; Decision making; Maintenance management; Real time information; Snow removal; Strategic planning; Weather; Winter maintenance
- Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01764424
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-04250
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 4 2021 4:48PM