The eventual goal of this program is to enhance the safety and efficiency of a broad spectrum of critical winter maintenance activities, and to foster development of commercially available solutions. ASP-I includes lane position indication and lane departure warning, as well as a forward collision warning system. The system was tested over Winter 1998-1999 in the California Advanced Winter Maintenance Testbed on Interstate 80 near Donner Summit, as well as on US 180 near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Safety is a significant issue on rural highways, particularly in harsh winter conditions.
ACMS refers to application of advanced technology, e.g. robotics and automation, to highway construction and maintenance, along with identification of conventional and future construction and maintenance demands and limitations. Advanced Construction and Maintenance Systems often provides efficiency and cost saving, in addition to the primary advantage of safety. The Advanced Snowplow refers to functions for providing guidance and collision warning information to the snowplow operator. This testing and data collection effort will help understand snowplow operations and plan for follow-up comprehensive development efforts. Among the technologies developed in the ASP-I program, several were already in existence and required minimum efforts to be integrated into the snowplow guidance system.