The Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment program “seeks to combine connected vehicle and mobile device technologies in innovative and cost-effective ways” with the aim of improving mobility transportation, system productivity, safety and environmental impact.
Three pilot sites, including Wyoming, Tampa, and New York City, were selected to conduct three phases of operation. These include concept development, design/build/test and operations.
Details on the three pilot sites, from the ITS JPO, are included below.
The primary objective for the CV Pilot ICF/Wyoming pilot deployment is to reduce the number of weather related incidents (including secondary incidents) in the corridor in order to improve safety and reduce incident-related delays. This deployment will utilize connected vehicle technology to improve and monitor performance on Interstate 80 (I-80), which is a freight-intensive corridor with a daily volume of 11,000 to 16,000 vehicles, many of which are heavy-duty trucks (30 percent to 55 percent).
The I-80 corridor is about 402 miles long and reaches its maximum elevation of 8,640 feet above sea level at Sherman Summit, near Buford. As a result of the high elevation, the corridor is particularly subject to winter weather events, most commonly between the months of October and May. Weather events typical to the corridor are ice and snow covered road surfaces, poor visibility, and high wind events (i.e., wind speeds exceeding 30 mph and wind gusts exceeding 40 mph) that often lead to truck blow-overs. Between 2002 and 2012, more than 3,470 high-wind crashes were observed.
This Pilot will develop applications that use vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) connectivity to support a flexible range of services that improves safety and mobility. Information from these applications will be made available directly to the equipped fleets or through data connections to fleet management centers, that will then communicate it to their trucks using their own systems. The applications to be deployed include Road Weather Advisories and Warnings for Motorists and Freight Carriers, Weather-Responsive Variable Speed Limit System, Freight-Specific Dynamic Travel Planning, Spot Weather Impact Warning, Situational Awareness, and others as determined by the user needs of truck drivers, fleet managers in the corridor.
