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Title:

Road Weather and Traffic Data in Traffic Management

Abstract:

During the last few years research and development work for utilization of mobile monitoring data has been conducted in Finland. This included the use of probe vehicles and mobile phone positioning to improve road weather data and traffic data collected by fixed monitoring stations. The utilization of road weather and traffic information for traffic management is described here with two examples in Southeast Finland. In these cases there are some interesting points that are very important with respect to research and development but also for the future development of the transportation system. The main differences between these cases focus on road weather conditions (closeness of coast ? inland), road management (intersection ? road section), traffic environment (intersection ? road section), traffic composition (heavy traffic ? car traffic), variation of traffic (seasonal variation ? day-to-day variation ? hourly variation) and traffic behaviour (local traffic - long distance traffic).

Source(s):

11th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC), Finnish Road Administration (Finland)

http://www2.ceri.go.jp/sirwec2002/english/papers/portaankorva.pdf

Date: 2002

Author:

Portaankorva

Keywords:


Traffic management
Traffic control
Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
Variable Speed Limit (VSL)

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