Patent Document ID: 9098654
Application ID: 14294056
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of integrating traffic and weather data for modeling travel 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 one or more meteorological profiles representing weather conditions on a roadway segment of a transportation infrastructure for which travel conditions are to be modeled; ingesting, as a second set of input data, traffic data, and developing one or more traffic profiles representing traffic conditions on the roadway segment for which travel conditions are to be modeled; simulating, in a computing environment comprised of hardware and software components that include at least one processor configured to analyze the one or more meteorological profiles and one or more traffic profiles, current and forecasted pavement conditions in response to 1) changes in states of moisture atop the road resulting from heat and moisture exchanges between a pavement surface and the atmosphere and 2) traffic flow characteristics over time as indicated in the traffic profile, in a pavement condition model that develops a profile of pavement condition states over the specified period of time; and generating, using the profile of pavement condition states and one or more of the meteorological profiles and traffic profiles, data that provide an indication of travel conditions and travel options that include at least one of travel difficulty, travel safety, travel efficiency, and route optimization in an area of travel.