•Enhanced MDSS
(Maintenance Decision Support System) Communications
•Problem
Addressed:
–Reduce reliance on
(potentially expensive) commercial wireless networks to communicate with
snowplows or other maintenance vehicles
–Keep treatment
recommendations current
•Description
–MDSS equipped
maintenance vehicles utilize DSRC hot spots to download treatment
recommendations and upload recent maintenance activities
–In many rural areas
access to commercial networks is limited and/or expensive
–Utilize DSRC hot spots
to reduce costs and improve communications latency for state DOTs
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