Weather & environmental monitoring for traffic management
Optimize traffic flows with weather awareness and data analysis
Vaisala Weather & Environmental Monitoring for Traffic Management gives road authorities, cities and traffic management system integrators the tools they need for comprehensive, real-time awareness of their road networks — in any season or situation. The world’s best sensors for weather and roads condition ensure unmatched accuracy and reliability.
Whether informing drivers of ice on the roadway or providing environmental sensing data to smart city systems, traffic management solutions are only as good as the data they use. That’s why many customers and integrators come to Vaisala first to build their solution. In these cases, we often partner with other leading experts for traffic management and data analysis — turning observations and data into scalable, full-stack solutions that can be customized to any situation or locale.
Tailored to your needs, Weather & Environmental Monitoring for Traffic Management serves a wide range of applications such as:
- Variable message signs, such as warnings for high winds, poor visibility and dynamic speed controls
- Environmental traffic management, such as understanding dependencies between traffic and weather
- Traffic strategy models, including prevailing and predicted weather and traffic information
- Adaptive traffic light signaling based on weather
- Weather data for regional traffic management centers
Case: Safer driving through low visibility
How the Arizona Department of Transportation created an automated speed limit system based on Vaisala PWD visibility sensors — the first of its kind in the United State.
Products & solutions
Road Weather Station RWS200
Winter Road Maintenance
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