FROM ANONYMISED VEHICLE DATA TO RELIABLE INFORMATION
VERKKO is supporting Road Monitor in launchinga national innovation project with eleven partners raise the safety and enable smarter maintenance of roads across the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is facing a major maintenance challenge, and the pressure on road safety is also increasing. At the same time, many modern cars now feature smart sensors. These smart sensors provide valuable data and information regarding the road quality: from outside temperatures and reduced tyre resistance to windshield activation and rapid braking.
A pilot project with Mercedes-Benz already showed that anonymised vehicle data can provide useful insights for road authorities. With support of the eleven new innovation partners, road authorities can use anonymised vehicle data on a much larger scale
DEVELOPING INFORMATION SERVICES
ROMO will be supported by the expertise of Netherlands Organization for Applied Science Reserach (TNO) and the National Road Traffic Data Portal (NDW). NDW carried out the tender on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. These information services will provide a real-time overview of what is happening on the roads using anonymised vehicle data.
The information will help to:
- Detect early signs of road damage
- Identify slippery conditions in time
- Recognise locations that present a safety risk.
The information services will be divided into the following three themes:
- Road maintenance (asset management),
- Dealing with extreme weather (weather management)
- Improving road safety.
ROMO IS ABOUT COLLABORATING TOWARDS DATA-DRIVEN AND MORE EFFICIENT ROAD MANAGEMENT
The more road authorities that participate, the better and more relevant the information will become.
This public-private partnership will offer numerous benefits. By working together and learning from each other, road authorities and innovation partners will increasingly recognise the value of this anonymised vehicle data. In addition road authorities will become more aware of which data helps them to prevent accidents or damage to the road.