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vehicle hazard event

Type: National

Description: Notification of a potential hazard that is detected by the vehicle, including hazards posed by the vehicle itself. Self-reported hazards include notification that the vehicle is being operated in an unsafe manner or is stopped in the travel lanes or on the shoulder. Detected hazards include unequipped vehicles operating unsafely, traffic queues, and foreign objects (people, animals, debris, other obstacles) in the travel lanes. It includes vehicle location and status, path, current control actions, and additional information on the detected hazard, if applicable. This includes vehicles making excessive lane changes or traveling at excessive speeds, maintaining less than minimum headways, and wrong way vehicles. For wrong-way vehicles, this flow also passes information about detected unequipped wrong-way vehicles.


Last Updated 4/18/2024