Autonomous Road Weather Systems - A Cost-effective Way to Increase Monitoring Points on a Road Network

Water/wastewater

Autonomous Road Weather Systems - A Cost-effective Way to Increase Monitoring Points on a Road Network

31 Jul, 2009

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Iain Thornton
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Accurate weather information plays an important role in road trafficmanagement allowing operators to warn drivers of poor conditions, and take precautionary actions such as reducing speed limits or gritting roads. For road weather a combination of forecast information and empirical data collected from roadside outstations is used to anticipate potential problems which might affect road safety or traffic flow. Forecasts have improved over the years but they are still not 100% reliable and so verification of actual conditions through site measurement is vital.

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