Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Trucking Industry Preferences for Driver Traveler Information using Wireless Internet-Enabled Devices
Abstract:
If truck drivers could use Internet-enabled wireless devices to access traveler information, what type of information would they most want to have? Preferences for traveler information from managers of 700 trucking companies were analyzed to determine how they valued information. Using a factor-analytic model with regressor variables, we found clear differences in preferences across types of trucking operations. "Locations of freeway incidents and lane closures," "weather information," and "travel times on alternative routes" were evaluated as important by the greatest number of carriers.
Source(s):
82nd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, University of California Institute of Transportation Studies
Date: 2003
Author:
Golob, Regan
Keywords:
Traveler information
Weather information
Internet/web site
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