The weather-related problems happened in the latest years have led to various problems on the road network: closed roads, trapped vehicles, accidents with injured people and casualties and important economic losses. Such incidences have induced the Traffic Control Centre in Valladolid to start a study for developing a traffic management plan for weather incidences and centred on the issue of winter viability. The final objective is to guarantee the viability of the road network, reducing the effects of any weather problems. It is therefore necessary to know where, when and how to act efficiently making use of the ITS systems available. The plan will identify and deal with the two phases existent in every weather incident: the alert phase and the action phase, defining the organisms involved in the problem resolution and how the information should be exchanged efficiently. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.
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