Closures that happen on Interstates are critical when they occur. The SAE J2735 standard includes TIMs that provide standardized approaches to describing events. Through multiple previous efforts, North/West Passage learned about the SDX as an operational data exchange that enables TIM uploads and allows subscribers to request and receive TIMs based on geographic queries. A number of third-party traveler information providers already subscribe to the SDX and receive TIMs from the SDX.
While the vision of all reports of disruptions (e.g., work zones, lane closures, driving conditions, delays) created and shared as TIMs may be too large a step initially, this project would focus on just road closures along the I-90/I-94 corridors, with the goal that all road closures would be reported and shared through the SDX using TIMs to describe the conditions. This project will provide support to North/West Passage states to assist them in creating automated feeds to upload TIMs describing road closures to the SDX. As a fallback option, one or more North/West Passage members may opt to use the manual entry tool to create TIMs in the SDX. The intent of this project would be an entry point effort that demonstrates collaborative use of TIMs and corridor-wide message uploads to the SDX. This unified and corridor-wide approach will be shared to the third-party information providers (e.g., Google Maps, Apple Maps) describing this corridor-wide approach.
Deliverables
- In progress
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