Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle, Phase I

Project status

Completed

Start date: 01/01/95
End date: 06/30/98

Researcher(s)

Principal investigator:

• Tom Maze

Co-principal investigator:

• Carlo D. Smith | Missouri State University

About the research

The state Departments of Transportation (DOT) of Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota formed a consortium to define and develop the next generation highway maintenance vehicle. The Center for Transportation Research and Education, an Iowa State University center, provided staff support to the concept highway maintenance vehicle project, which focused on winter maintenance activities. Phase I of the three-phase project focused on describing the desirable functions of a concept maintenance vehicle.

Publications

Project web page: http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/research/conceptv/index.htm

Report: http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/research/conceptv/convehcl/convhcl.pdf (438k pdf) April 1997

Related publications:

• High tech snow plow: An update (Technology News) Nov 1998
• A New Paradigm for Winter Maintenance Decisions (1998 Crossroads 2000, a Research Conference) Aug 1998
• From Concept to Reality: Advanced Technology and the Highway Maintenance Vehicle 155 kb pdf (Conference paper/presentation) Aug 1998

Sponsor(s)/partner(s)

Sponsor(s): Iowa Department of Transportation