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Project goal | Phase V | Earlier phases | Project partners | For more information
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Iowa's concept maintenance vehicle has been included in the Federal Highway Administration's Rural ITS Toolbox, a document that identifies successful rural ITS projects and statewide applications from across the nation.
Project goal
The goal of the Concept Highway Maintenance Vehicle research project is to study the feasibility of using advanced technologies from other industries to improve the efficiency and safety of winter highway maintenance vehicle operations. Project partners are listed at the bottom of this page. The Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) at Iowa State University is managing project tasks.
Phase V
Phase V is underway.
Earlier phases
Final reports are available online for
Project partners
For information about becoming a project partner, see the partner memorandum of understanding (*pdf file).
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Federal Highway Administration http://www.fhwa.dot.gov |
AerotechTelub http://www.rwis.net/ |
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Iowa Department of Transportation http://www.state.ia.us/government/dot/ |
IDA Corp. http://www.idaco.com/ |
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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation http://www.dot.state.pa.us/ |
Monroe Truck Equipment http://www.monroetruck.com |
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Wisconsin Department of Transportation http://www.dot.state.wi.us/ |
Norsemeter, AS http://www.norsemeter.no/ |
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Raven Industries http://www.ravenind.com/ |
For more information
Contact Dennis Kroeger at CTRE, 515-296-0910 or kroeger@iastate.edu. Project updates will be made to this web page as they arise.
FOCUS, an FHWA newsletter, published an article about the project in October 1998.
*To read pdf files you must have a copy of the Adobe Acrobat reader, which you can download free.
