Traveler Information on Cable Access Television

Project Description

When weather and travel are hazardous, the traveling public needs accurate and reliable information about current road conditions. This project was designed to test the delivery of deliver pertinent road information to the public using graphic displays of road condition maps on cable access television. Traveler information is taken from data sources such as CARS (Condition Acquisition and Reporting System) and R/WIS (Road and Weather Information System), and then sent to Minnesota Satellite and Technology. From there, two cable access television stations (Avrig and Sjoberg) in northwestern Minnesota download the data and deliver it to the public through their regular programming.