Where the Weather Meets the Road A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Amy consults her traffic simulation model that monitors traffic and weather in realtime and predicts congestion out to three hours; she sees that there should be no major delays for the millions of people trying to get to their friend's or relative's home to eat turkey and give thanks. Her suite of traffic cameras confirm the model; upon onset of the heavy rain, all vehicles have automatically slowed and reconfigured for optimal traction on wet roads, and the automatic spacing between the cars has increased.
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At the same time, individual drivers and commercial trucking operations would be able to find better routes that minimize expo sure to weather threats, leading to less time spent on the road and more efficient shipping practices. Benefits also would be gained by developing weather information products and decision support tools that would enable a more cost-effective and optimized operation of the roadway system, from advanced winter maintenance practices to weather-responsive traffic man agement.
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The proposed road weather research program will help alleviate some of the difficulties of these demographic changes with better traffic management, improved weather forecasting, human factors research, and vehicle telematics. The population distribution is another demographic trend that will require attention over the next decades.
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Technological solutions from the intelligent transportation systems com munity will provide many of the required future solutions. Open systems and common standards for vehicle systems and the road infrastructure across the entire continentwide road system will help North America remain com petitive in the global marketplace.
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