ODOT Winter Maintenance
Description
Install snow and ice detection management and advanced snow plow systems. Pilot project to assess use of road weather information systems integrated with advanced technology snow plows. These systems provide early warning of icing and snow, and meter the
Status
Planned
Timeframe
Long-Term Priority
Geographic Scope
Service Scope
Cost = $1,000,000. Operations & Maintenance Cost (per year) = $30,000;
Stakeholders
Inventory
ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages
ODOT District 3 Maintenance Garages
ODOT Maintenance and Construction Vehicles
Services
MC03-1 - Road Weather Data Collection - ODOT District 12
MC03-2 - Road Weather Data Collection - ODOT District 3
MC06-05 - Winter Maintenance - ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages (1 of 2)
MC06-06 - Winter Maintenance - ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages (2 of 2)
MC06-07 - Winter Maintenance - ODOT District 3 Maintenance Garages (1 of 2)
MC06-08 - Winter Maintenance - ODOT District 3 Maintenance Garages (2 of 2)
Functional Areas
MCM Environmental Information Collection
- The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), da
- The center shall collect environmental probe data (air temperature, exterior light status, wiper status, traction control status, etc.) from short range communications equipment that communicates with appropriately equipped probe vehicles.
- The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair.
- The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment.
- The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors on-board maintenance and construction vehicles that measure road and weather conditions including air and surface temperatures, wind speed, humidity, precipitation, visibility and other measures.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
- The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
MCM Maintenance Decision Support
- The center shall provide an interface to the center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive decisions or information presentation.
- The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions.
- The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipmen
- The center shall tailor the decision support information to include filtering (selection from a large amount of external information), error reduction ('smoothing' the information), fusion (combination of disparate information to match the decision needs)
MCM Winter Maintenance Management
- The center shall assess the current status of all winter maintenance activities, including actual work activities performed, current locations and operational conditions of vehicles, materials and equipment inventories, field equipment status, environment
- The center shall determine the need for roadway treatment based on current and forecasted weather information, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, requests for action from other agencies, and recommendations from the Maintenanc
- The center shall dispatch and route winter maintenance vehicle drivers and support them with route- specific environmental, incident, advisory, threat, alert, and traffic congestion information.
- The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of winter maintenance activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications inc
- The center shall provide dispatch instructions for vehicle operators based on input parameters from center personnel, specifically for winter conditions. This could include a treatment route, treatment application rates, start and end times, and other tre
- The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other winter roadway maintenance.
- The center shall support remote control of on-board maintenance and construction vehicle systems and field equipment that is remotely controlled by the vehicle such as adjusting material application rates and spread patterns.
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall exchange operational and environmental data with other maintenance and construction vehicles. Operational data includes operational state of the maintenance equipment (e.g., blade up/down, spreader pattern,
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall monitor materials information including remaining quantity and current application rate of materials on the vehicle.
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall respond to control information from the center to allow remote operation of the on-board vehicle systems. These systems include winter maintenance equipment for plowing, treating, and anti-icing.
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall respond to dispatch information from the center, presented to the vehicle operator for acknowledgement and returning status.
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall send operational data to the center including the operational state of the maintenance equipment (e.g., blade up/down, spreader pattern), types and quantities of materials used for construction and maintenanc
- The maintenance and construction vehicle shall track the location and status of safety systems on-board the vehicle.
Roadway Environmental Monitoring
- The field element shall include environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
- The field element shall include surface and sub-surface environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
- The field element shall provide environmental sensor equipment fault indication to the controlling center or maintenance vehicle.
- The field element shall provide environmental sensor equipment operational status to the controlling center or maintenance vehicle.
- The field element shall provide weather and road surface condition data to centers.
- The field element shall provide weather and road surface condition data to maintenance and construction vehicles.
- The field element shall remotely aggregate environmental sensor data with environmental data collected from maintenance and construction vehicles.
- The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a maintenance and construction vehicle.
- The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a maintenance center.
- The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a traffic management center.
- The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by weather service providers such as the National Weather Service or value-added sector specific meteorological services.
- The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), da
- The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
- The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
Interfaces
Standards
| SDO | Document ID | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Center Standards Group | Group |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Field Standards Group | Group |
| IEEE | View List | Incident Management Standards Group | Group |
| SAE | View List | Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) General Use Standards Group | Group |
| AASHTO/ITE | ITE TMDD | Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD) and Message Sets for External Traffic Management Center Communications (MS/ETMCC) | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1201 | Global Object Definitions | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1204 | Object Definitions for Environmental Sensor Stations (ESS) | Message/Data |
| ASTM | ASTM E2468-05 | Standard Practice for Metadata to Support Archived Data Management Systems | Other |
Operational Concepts
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