Description:

Weather (atmospheric conditions) and road weather (pavement conditions) can adversely affect vehicle and driver behavior. With the advent of automated vehicles (AVs), multiple entities have begun research and testing to identify how vehicles and drivers will detect and react to adverse weather and road weather conditions. AVs have sensors and perception systems to detect objects and events in their vicinity. Using this information, fully automated vehicles control the steering, speed, or both to move the vehicle along its selected path. The vehicle’s ability to properly perceive the situation and execute a maneuver can be affected by atmospheric and road weather. As more advanced automated vehicles are deployed, there becomes an even greater need to connect the vehicle and meteorology communities together to make sure solutions are identified for operational and safety activities, long-term planning, and policy making.

This session will consist of discussions on the meteorology needs for operating automated vehicles. We invite the road weather community and automated vehicle specialists to explore use cases on how road weather meteorology can support automated vehicles during adverse weather including:  

• Automated Vehicle Testing: results of automated vehicle testing during adverse weather and test track scenarios.
• Meteorology Forecasting and Observations: available technologies and forecasts that can or could support automated vehicles (all levels).
• AMS Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit: share key findings and lessons learned from the Summit held Jun 25-27, 2024, in Ann Arbor, MI.