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Title:

Automated Vehicle for Enhanced Work Crew Safety

Abstract:

The automated vehicle conversion system presented in this report provides a low-cost method of reducing worker exposure to hazardous conditions. Automation of a traffic control vehicle not only eliminates the risk to the life of the driver but also eliminates the labor expense of a driver. Safety is additionally enhanced to work crews and motorists by allowing the system to be used in situations where the added expense of a driver is not practical. This is particularly true for local highway departments with limited budgets. Future benefits include automated collision-prevention and completely autonomous intelligent vehicle tracking, navigation and control for IVHS. In this Phase I, MTI has demonstrated the automated follow vehicle capability on both reduced-scale and full-scale vehicles. The resulting automated system is easily adaptable to existing highway maintenence vehicles. The approach taken in phase I has siginficnt potential for successful commercialization in Phase II and beyond.

Source(s):

National Research Council, Strategic Highway Research Program

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/shrp/SHRP-H-676.pdf

Date: 1994

Author:

MacLeod, Chiarella

Keywords:


Safety

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