Aurora The Intelligent Road Alina Koskela Finnish Transport Agency 17.1.2018 Olos
PUBLIC SERVICE PLATFORM FOR TESTING 10 km of instrumented road on the E8 Instrumentation and information services supporting testing of ITS, CAD and asset management in road traffic Open test ecosystem creating opportunities for developing technologies to work in all conditions Testers can utilise the test ecosystem free of charge.
SERVICES Aurora positioning service (correction service, Finnref station), accuracy down to 5 cm Snowbox car (MB Vito) available for testers, equipment installation possible Support Staff available (electrician, traffic management and traffic management s support) Wireless, dedicated network available in the whole area, SIM cards available Pre-5G testing possibilities 50 m2 unheated facility and 35 m2 heated facility for testers in Muonio
INFRASTRUCTURE Access and distribution switches (in equipment shelters) providing tester-specific private VLAN and dedicated ports, as well as the teleoperators routers Heated equipment shelter, where testers can install their own equipment. Electricity, fibre (covering the 10 km road) and internet connection (100/100 Mb inner and 10 Mb outer network) available Cable protective pipes (Ø 110 mm, inner pipe Ø 100 mm) under and along the road can be used for installing additional cables if needed. Cable manholes (connection to electricity and fibre) and electric distribution centres Test equipment can be installed in equipment shelters, masts, poles, as well as in and along the road On a 1.5 km stretch along the road there are fixed stands on which, for example, marker posts and ploughing poles or the equipment required for testing may be installed
DATA GENERATED BY THE INSTRUMENTATION All data available as open data through Digitraffic service (Aurora PoC) Sensors: vibration, weight, pressure, acceleration, oscillation frequency, road surface slipperiness, measuring and monitoring of the road structure and condition, traffic volumes Real-time information about road conditions (incl. frost sensor and radiometer) generated by road weather stations HD Map Services, laser-scanned data
Laser scanners Will CAD enhance rutting of the road surface? Scanning the road surface enables recognising the position of the vehicles Can we slow down the rutting AND optimise the road surface usage?
Road structure and vehicle weight monitoring The condition of roads is affected by seasonal changes and vehicle weights. Monitoring these changes generates detailed data to effectively address the effects and to predictively manage them.
Vibration frequency monitoring Vibration sensing technology can distinguish what kind of vibration different objects generate in the road structure. Can vibration frequency monitoring help to predict long term changes in the road and notify the infrastructure owner to take action?
R&D: THE ARCTIC CHALLENGE 2017-2019 R&D for intelligent infrastructure and road vehicle automation solutions and their performance and impacts in Arctic conditions Bases on Road transport automation Road map and action plan 2016 2020 Research areas: Physical infrastructure (landmarks) Communications Location data and positioning Technical performance of the solutions needs to be verified with field trials using automated vehicles in the Aurora Borealis corridor (E8)
R&D: THE INFRA CHALLENGE 2017-2018 How roads should be instrumented to support proactive maintenance, intelligent infrastructure asset management and connected and automated driving? How can maintenance processes be automated? What kind of maintenance do connected and automated vehicles require? How automated data acquisition processes could be utilised to support pavement management and daily maintenance (crowd sourcing)? How connected and automated driving will affect the wearing of the road?
DO YOU SNOWHOW? CONNECT WITH AURORA 186 days long winter season Polar night lasts for 25 days 116 days below -10 C 51 days below -20 C 9 days below -30 C Snow thickness between 0,5 1 m