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This
market package provides for special requirements of rural road systems.
Instead of a central TMC, the traffic management is distributed over a
very wide area (e.g., a whole state or collection of states). Each locality
has the capability of accessing available information for assessment of
road conditions. The package uses vehicles as smart probes that are capable
of measuring road conditions and providing this information to the roadway
for relay to the Traffic Management Subsystem and potentially direct relay
to following vehicles (i.e., the automated road signing equipment is capable
of autonomous operation). In-vehicle signing is used to inform drivers
of detected road conditions.
