Wikis

The ideas in the basket "Ready to go" are judged to be ready for implementation, or at least mature enough to be further developed by WPs, clear and realisable ideas:

Ideas Presented

• Road climatology – thermal mapping;

• Friction measurements compared to prevailing weather situations;

• Free all weather data – free geospatial data;

• Product: box to collate data in vehicle weather measurement, crash diagnosis as a source of transmitted real time data;

• Dense network of roadside changing signs, showing current problems nearby (weather, accidents) like develop an intelligent traffic sign – operating quasiautomatically;

• With weather data, traffic data, warnings –display as a sign;

• Pedestrian, cyclist, m-cyclist all have strong weather dependent choices to make – often pre-trip advice – on route adjustments, advice all based on microweather data;

• In-vehicle information about speed, road conditions, and traffic situation;

• Inclusion of traffic load & weather data into route planning;

• Free our geo-data:

• Good:

Trend is right: work done in EU directives, many open services e.g. penstreetmap.com, Galileo, some signal free (perhaps from 2010 on), more data coming from new sources;  more competition-> prices go down or disappear

• Problems:

Personal data security sometimes a barrier to get data

Private companies do not have to give their data

No integrated data sources, e.g. road weather data

Most problems in map and weather data

Pricing rules may differ per country

• Solutions:

Data providers and business and service providers must be separated -> no conflict of interests

If everything is for free, only way to have costs covered are: a) taxmoney (not much), b) advertisements (only big and attractive services survive), c) other? New business models!

• Mobile sensors for data acquisition in efficient use – weather and traffic: mobile phones as sensors – peer to per to infrastructure data acquisition: efficient use of cell probe (mobile networks) in traffic flow; public sector is buying data, not investing in infrastructure;

• Weather observations from airport combine with satellite info; lots of important parameters are manually measured 48 times a day. Same standard over the world and it’s free! Visibility, fog, etc. weather condition, temperature, dew point;

• Mobile Pocket Guide: utilisation of existing data for positional services of pedestrians and cyclists (mobile) - > positioned extra services for mobile information guide;

• Weather: slippery, strong wind, heavy rain etc. environment fine particles, road works, incidents, warnings, commercial services, restaurants, shops, events, public transport: stops, lines, arrivals;

• EYEAR: friction data collection and transmission: use of optical friction sensors in route buses and trucks to get information of the slipperiness on highways. Also information from brakes;

• Mapping of acoustic emission data to estimate friction and slipperiness;

• Permafrost road network – data fusion, models, prediction of bearing capacity -> paper industry mining;

• Friction data collection and transmission: many methods to be tested simultaneously – acoustic, optical, in-vehicle data, wheel, Pilot: vehicles with a lot of sensors some test have already been done, varying road conditions required;

• Port-related traffic modelling: modelling the intermodal traffic situation for ports -> depicting the interrelationship between the road traffic situation and ship arrivals online and for planning purposes;

• Multipurpose use of GPS-based road tolling: use of truck-tolling systems for other purposes like FCD collection, road weather detection, emergency calls;

• Weather observations with satellite: use weather observation from airports, lot of important parameters that can be used for road use. The observations are made manually two times every hour. Same standard all over the world, combine with satellite info;

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