Physical Object: Transportation Information Center
TIC Road Weather Advisories and Warnings
Overview
'TIC Road Weather Advisories and Warnings' collects, aggregates, and processes environmental situation data (aka environmental probe data) from connected vehicles. Environmental situation data may be collected through direct wide area wireless communications with vehicles or through short range communications equipment at the roadside. Aggregated environmental conditions information are distributed to other centers that use the information to support transportation operations and traveler information services.
This functional object is included in the "Transportation Information Center" physical object.
This functional object is included in the following service packages:
- CVO10: Road Weather Information for Freight Carriers
- VS07: Road Weather Motorist Alert and Warning
- WX03: Spot Weather Impact Warning
This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:
- 6.2.1: Collect Misc Traveler Information
- 6.2.2: Collect Traffic Data
- 6.2.5: Collect Situation and Sensor Data From Vehicles
- 6.2.7: Provide Operator Interface for Data Collection
- 6.5.1: Provide Broadcast Data Interface
- 6.5.2: Provide Interactive Data Interface
- 6.5.5: Provide Emergency Traveler Information
- 6.5.7: Provide Operator Interface for Traveler Information Parameters
- 6.5.9: Provide Traveler Alert Interface
Requirements
# | Requirement |
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01 | The center shall collect road weather data (air temperature, exterior light status, wiper status, traction control status, etc.) from appropriately equipped vehicles and short range communications equipment. |
02 | The center shall aggregate collected environmental probe data and disseminate the aggregated road weather data to other centers. |
03 | The center shall receive traffic probe data collected by transit fleet operators and include this data in aggregated probe data provided to other centers. |
04 | The center shall receive traffic probe data derived from electronic toll collection operations and include this data in aggregated probe data provided to other centers. |
05 | The center shall develop short term weather warnings or advisories that can be provided to individual motorists. |
06 | The center shall obtain information regarding weather and road conditions for targeted weather impact, including visibility, wind speed, wind direction, snow accumulation, adjacent snow accumulation, ice/water accumulation. |
Information Flows
Standards
Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.