Abstract
The European Commission has a key role in Europe to fund initiatives to put effectively into practice important ITS objectives, solutions and applications which contribute to safer and more sustainable transportation systems. One outcome is the 7th Framework Programme project FOTsis (Field Operational Test on safe, intelligent and sustainable road operation). FOTsis is a large-scale ITS field test of road infrastructure management systems implemented at nine test highways in four European countries. Weather-driven solutions and services have a fundamental role in the FOTsis service palette due to the fact that adverse weather accounts for some of the most notorious disruptions in road transportation and addressing huge economic impacts. The FOTsis end-to-end weather applications represent both the realization of a multi-disciplinary solution-oriented approach applied in the road transportation field, and the employment of weather information in a near-real-time context. The FOTsis framework was introduced at the previous ITS World Congress, Vienna 2012. The present paper illustrates the first practical solutions implemented at the dedicated FOTsis test highways in summer 2013. Future perspectives of the project are also highlighted.
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Published on 31/12/11
Accepted on 31/12/11
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Volume 2012, 2012
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