Hampton Roads Regional Roadway Flooding Sensor Network
Abstract
The Hampton Roads Regional Roadway Flooding Sensor Network will reduce the impacts of roadway flooding on the region?s economy, public safety, and mission readiness for area military installations. This project will result in the installation of a regional network of sensors that will provide real-time information on roadway flooding to commuters, which would encourage them to choose alternate routes to avoid delays caused by flooded roads and minimize damage to vehicles from driving through water. Data will be delivered to drivers through a mobile application such as Google Maps or Waze, so that drivers would not have to sign up for an alert-based service to benefit from the sensor data. Data will also be stored for tracking and research purposes and made available to localities and installations to potentially help prioritize roadway improvements or additional communications efforts, such as installation-wide alerts. This project will directly benefit the Navy by alerting military and civilian personnel to the presence of flooding on roadways near installation access points so that they can seek alternative routes or adjust schedules, thus reducing impacts to operations and readiness. As referenced in the Grant Introduction/Background, this activity is in response to a recommendation in the recent Hampton Roads Region - Norfolk and Virginia Beach Joint Land Use Study. The primary mission of the sensor network will be to provide data during moderate weather events. The HRPDC Coastal Resiliency Committee has identified over 200 locations for installing roadway sensors, including several on roadways that provide direct access to military installations. The network will be developed in stages, with an initial rollout of 20 sensors to develop and test the system. The system will be comprised of the sensors and a web-based data management system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 15, 2021
- Source ID
- HQ00052110034
Entities
People
- Benjamin Mcfarlane
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense