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Title:

Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle: Final Report Phase Four

Abstract:

This report documents Phase IV of the Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle (HMCV) project, a pooled fund study sponsored by the Departments of Transportation of Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This report provides the background, including a brief history of the earlier phases of the project, a systems overview, and descriptions of the research conducted in Phase IV. Finally, the report provides conclusions and recommendations for future research. The HMCV demonstrates near term benefits of the technologies for winter maintenance operations. A goal of the project is to assist the snowplow operator to perform his or her operations safely and efficiently. A second goal is to demonstrate the applications of the technologies for winter maintenance operations. An underlying theme for this project is to use relatively low cost commercially available components, so that the partners may readily adopt them. Phase IV builds on work accomplished in previous phases and supports the maintenance management system. Phase IV has two major strands, technical and financial. The outcome of Phase IV is a clear path to technology implementation, operation, and maintenance based on business case analyses.

Source(s):

Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24036

Date: 2002

Author:

Andrle, Kroeger, Gieseman, Burdine

Keywords:


Anti-icing/deicing
Pavement friction
Pavement temperature
Mobile sensing
Communications
Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)
Winter maintenance

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