Currently, there is an urgent demand for more cost-effective, resource-efficient and reliable solutions to address safety and mobility challenges on highways enduring snowy winter weather. To address this pressing issue, this commentary proposes that the physical and digital infrastructures should be upgraded to take advantage of emerging technologies and facilitate the vehicle-infrastructure integration (VII), to better inform decision-makers at various levels. Driven by the paradigm shift towards more automation and more intelligent transportation, it is time to reimagine the vehicle-infrastructure ecosystem with the cold-climate issues in mind, and to enhance communications and coordination among various highway users and stakeholders. This commentary envisages the deployment of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies to bring about transformative changes and substantial benefits in terms of enhanced winter safety and mobility on highways. At the center of the commentary is a conceptualized design of next-generation highways in cold climates, including the existing infrastructure entities that are appropriate for possible upgrade to connected infrastructure (CI) applications, to leverage the immensely expanded data availability fueled by better spatial and temporal coverage. The commentary also advances the idea that CI solutions can augment the sensing capabilities and confidence level of connected or autonomous vehicles. The application scenarios of VII system is then briefly explored, followed by some discussion of the paradigm shift towards V2X applications and a look to the future including some identified research needs in the arena of CI. This work aims to inspire dialogues and synergistic collaborations among various stakeholders of the VII revolution, because the specific challenges call for systematic, holistic, and multidisciplinary approaches accompanied by concerted efforts in the research, development, pilot testing, and deployment of CI technologies.

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不仅仅是智能的人行道：互连的基础设施为增强冬季安全性和高速公路上的机动性铺平了道路

当前，迫切需要更具成本效益，资源效率和可靠性的解决方案，以应对承受多雪的冬季天气的高速公路上的安全和机动性挑战。为了解决这一紧迫问题，该评论建议应升级物理和数字基础设施，以利用新兴技术并促进车辆基础设施集成（VII），以更好地为各级决策者提供信息。在范式向更高的自动化和更智能的交通方式转变的驱动下，是时候考虑到寒冷气候问题来重新构想车辆基础设施生态系统，并加强各种高速公路使用者和利益相关者之间的沟通与协调。该评论设想将部署车辆到所有（V2X）技术，以带来变革性的变化，并从增强的冬季安全性和高速公路上的机动性方面带来实质性的收益。评论的中心是寒冷气候下的下一代高速公路的概念化设计，其中包括适用于可能升级到互联基础设施（CI）应用程序的现有基础设施实体，以利用因空间和地理条件更好而带来的巨大扩展数据可用性。时间覆盖。评论还提出了CI解决方案可以增强联网或自动驾驶车辆的传感能力和置信度的想法。然后简要探讨了VII系统的应用场景，随后讨论了向V2X应用程序转变的范例，以及对未来的展望，包括CI领域已确定的研究需求。这项工作旨在激发VII革命的各个利益相关者之间的对话和协同合作，因为特定的挑战需要系统，整体和多学科的方法，并伴随着CI技术的研究，开发，试点测试和部署的共同努力。