Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles

Accidents involving heavy road vehicles are often destructive, causing operational losses, human casualties, infrastructure losses, and negative environmental impacts. The risk is especially high in wintertime traffic. The Eureka Xecs SafeTrucks project (Heavy traffic safety improvements by advanced...

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Main Authors: Timo Sukuvaara, Kari Mäenpää, Hannu Honkanen, Ari Pikkarainen, Marjo Hippi, Virve Karsisto
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8921/6/4/100
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description Accidents involving heavy road vehicles are often destructive, causing operational losses, human casualties, infrastructure losses, and negative environmental impacts. The risk is especially high in wintertime traffic. The Eureka Xecs SafeTrucks project (Heavy traffic safety improvements by advanced dynamics and road weather services) develops real-time vehicle-specific weather and safety services tailored to each vehicle, based on the vehicle’s own sensor-based observations combined with data from weather service systems and an analysis of the vehicle’s own dynamics. The services will also be analyzed by Digital Twin modeling in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Driver-In-the-Loop (DIL) scenarios, in order to evaluate and refine them in a controlled environment. This paper focuses on operative fleet piloting, while the Digital Twin approach will be presented in future work. The pilot services are ultimately tested in a pilot system within operative heavy traffic. This paper presents the concept and architecture of the platform, with preliminary results of pilot services operation, alternative communication analysis, and system evaluation.
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spelling doaj-art-c65bfbc053bf471ba405d74af883bd8b2025-08-20T02:01:14ZengMDPI AGVehicles2624-89212024-11-01642031204310.3390/vehicles6040100Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy VehiclesTimo Sukuvaara0Kari Mäenpää1Hannu Honkanen2Ari Pikkarainen3Marjo Hippi4Virve Karsisto5Arctic Space Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 99600 Sodankyla, FinlandArctic Space Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 99600 Sodankyla, FinlandArctic Space Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 99600 Sodankyla, FinlandArctic Space Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 99600 Sodankyla, FinlandMeteorological Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101 Helsinki, FinlandMeteorological Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101 Helsinki, FinlandAccidents involving heavy road vehicles are often destructive, causing operational losses, human casualties, infrastructure losses, and negative environmental impacts. The risk is especially high in wintertime traffic. The Eureka Xecs SafeTrucks project (Heavy traffic safety improvements by advanced dynamics and road weather services) develops real-time vehicle-specific weather and safety services tailored to each vehicle, based on the vehicle’s own sensor-based observations combined with data from weather service systems and an analysis of the vehicle’s own dynamics. The services will also be analyzed by Digital Twin modeling in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Driver-In-the-Loop (DIL) scenarios, in order to evaluate and refine them in a controlled environment. This paper focuses on operative fleet piloting, while the Digital Twin approach will be presented in future work. The pilot services are ultimately tested in a pilot system within operative heavy traffic. This paper presents the concept and architecture of the platform, with preliminary results of pilot services operation, alternative communication analysis, and system evaluation.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8921/6/4/100intelligent traffic systemsV2Xroad weathersafetyvehicle dynamicsdigital twin
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Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
Vehicles
intelligent traffic systems
V2X
road weather
safety
vehicle dynamics
digital twin
title Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
title_full Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
title_fullStr Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
title_short Work-in-Progress Report: Intelligent Traffic Road Weather and Safety Services for Heavy Vehicles
title_sort work in progress report intelligent traffic road weather and safety services for heavy vehicles
topic intelligent traffic systems
V2X
road weather
safety
vehicle dynamics
digital twin
url https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8921/6/4/100
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