Patent ID: 8744822

Claim:
A method of integrating traffic, weather and road condition data for modeling pavement conditions in a transportation infrastructure network, comprising: ingesting, as a first set of input data, weather data collected from one or more of weather sensors, satellite networks, vehicle-based systems, and numerical weather prediction models, and developing a meteorological profile representing weather conditions on a roadway segment of a transportation infrastructure for which pavement conditions are to be modeled; ingesting, as a second set of input data, traffic data, and developing a traffic profile representing traffic conditions on the roadway segment for which pavement conditions are to be modeled; ingesting, as a third set of input data, road condition data collected from one or more of road sensors, mobile sensors, and vehicle-based systems, and developing standardized road condition reports representing roadway conditions on the roadway segment for which pavement conditions are to be modeled; assimilating, in a computing environment comprised of hardware and software components that include at least one processor configured to analyze the meteorological profiles, the traffic profiles, and the standardized road condition reports in a road condition model that simulates and iteratively adjusts pavement condition states from behavior of a pavement response to one or more of 1) changes in states of moisture resulting from heat and moisture exchanges between a pavement surface, the atmosphere, and one or more pavement substrates in a pavement's composition 2) traffic flow characteristics that include deviations from a normal traffic state at a specified period of time indicated in the traffic profile, and 3) experienced roadway conditions from the standardized road condition reports, and predicts pavement condition states over the specified period of time; and generating one or more of a plurality of output pavement conditions from the simulated and predicted pavement condition states to output data modules configured to develop spatial, trip, and time-series content in one or more related application programming interfaces, and interpretations of the simulated and predicted pavement condition states for distribution to output data modules configured to develop enhanced commercial content in one or more related application programming interfaces.