Orginally posted: TrafficTechnologyToday.com /February 29, 2016
The University of Wyoming (UW) is part of a team working on a pilot project that is intended to reduce the number of weather-related incidents involving trucks on I-80, as part of the US Department of Transportation’s Wave 1 Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program.
About 11,000 to 16,000 vehicles a day travel along the 402-mile (647km) corridor in Wyoming, which is the state’s critical economic transportation route, and sections are often subject to bad weather and numerous closure during the region’s long, harsh winters. Focusing on the needs of truckers, the pilot project will develop applications that use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity to support a flexible range of services, including weather advisories, roadside alerts, parking notifications and travel information. Using dedicated short range communications (DSRC), information will be made available directly to the equipped fleets from the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), or through data connections to fleet management centers of the various freight carriers. The various management centers, through their own systems, then communicate weather and road condition information to their trucks.