Integration of Connected Vehicle and RWIS Technologies

Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology is progressing rapidly. Numerous research and deployment initiatives are underway as the transportation industry continues to examine how roadway assets such as traffic control signs, markings, signals, guardrail, computing systems, communications infrastructure and systems, and other permanent and temporary ancillary devices can be designed or enhanced to facilitate CAV operations. Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) are relied on across the US to help predict and manage the impacts of weather on transportation safety and mobility. RWIS data are used heavily by road authorities as well as across the public and private spectrum of weather service providers. The integration of mobile observational data from connected vehicle (CV) and probe-based data are providing agencies with new options for vehicle centric operational and weather-related data. In some situations, CAVs may benefit from direct data exchanges with the RWIS, thus creating a huge potential for road weather information and other operations functions to be complemented by field devices, which can be collected from the communications of passing CAVs.

• Record URL:
  https://rip.trb.org/View/1639799
• Record URL:
  https://www.pooledfund.org/Details/Study/658
• Record URL:
  https://ideas.iowadot.gov/subdomain/ideas-main/end/node/3499?qmzn=iKFrYf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $39971
• Contract Numbers:

  TPF-5(435)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Iowa Department of Transportation

  800 Lincoln Way
  Ames, IA  United States  50010
• Managing Organizations:

  Iowa State University, Ames

  Center for Transportation Research and Education
  2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664
• Project Managers:

  Greenfield Huitt, Tina

• Performing Organizations:

  Iowa State University, Ames

  Center for Transportation Research and Education
  2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664
• Principal Investigators:

  Nlenanya, Inya

  Hallmark, Shauna

• Start Date: 20231101
• Expected Completion Date: 20240228
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Data sharing; Road weather information systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01908408
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Iowa Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: TPF-5(435)
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 19 2024 7:07PM