APPLICATION OF ADVANCED ITS INTERFACING THAT IMPROVE[S] MAINTENANCE OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND WINTER SAFETY IN RURAL AREAS WITH FOCUS ON WINTER ROADWAY FRICTION MEASUREMENT AND ROADWAY SURFACE FREEZING POINT

In 1995, the State Departments of Transportation of Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota formed a consortium to define and develop the next- generation highway maintenance vehicle that would utilize the latest maintenance operational technologies and interface with ITS. Focus groups consisting of each DOTs internal and external customers revealed that while all maintenance operations could benefit from creating this new generation vehicle, ice and snow operations were the most complex and would benefit greatly from improvements in state of the art vehicle navigation systems, onboard computer applications, and enhanced safety systems. This advanced technology highway maintenance vehicle functions as both an operational truck and a mobile data- gathering platform. Sensors mounted on the vehicle record air and roadway surface temperature, roadway surface condition, and roadway surface friction characteristics. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is used to provide location information. The information will eventually interface with the ITS technology in the Traffic Management and Information Service Provider Centers Subsystems of the National ITS Architecture

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2001. Intelligent Transportation Society of America, Washington DC. Format: CD ROM
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  Rhode Island Department of Transportation

  372 State Office Building
  Providence, RI  United States  02903

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Ecological Resources Management Branch, Environmental Affairs Division, 11th and Brazos Streets
  Austin, TX  United States  78701

  Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon

  4012 Southeast 17th Avenue
  Portland, OR  United States  97202

  George Mason Univeristy

  School of Law, 4400 University Drive
  Fairfax, VA  United States  22030

  Mitretek Systems

  3150 Fairview Park Drive
  Falls Church, VA  United States  22042

  DKS Associates

  405 14th Street
  Oakland, CA  United States  94612

  PBS&J (Firm). ITS Division

  ,    

  PB Farradyne, Incorporated

  ,    

  Michigan State University, East Lansing

  East Lansing, MI  United States  48824

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  College Park, MD  United States  20742

  University of Miami, Coral Gables

  Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 1251 Memorial Drive
  Coral Gables, FL  United States  33146

  Microsoft Corporation

  Redmond, WA  United States 
• Authors:
  • McCall, Bill
  • Smithson, Leland
  • Kroeger, Dennis A
• Conference:
  • ITS America 11th Annual Meeting and Exposition, ITS: Connecting the Americas
  • Location: Miami Beach Florida
  • Date: 2001-6-4 to 2001-6-7
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 17 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Road weather information systems; Transportation operations; Trucks; Vehicle design
• Subject Areas: Design; Motor Carriers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00814871
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 20 2003 12:00AM