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Maintenance and Construction Vehicle

This subsystem resides in a maintenance, construction, or other specialized service vehicles or equipment and provides the sensory, processing, storage, and communications functions necessary to support highway maintenance and construction.  All types of maintenance and construction vehicles are covered, including heavy equipment and supervisory vehicles.  The subsystem provides two-way communications between drivers/operators and dispatchers and maintains and communicates current location and status information.  A wide range of operational status is monitored, measured, and made available, depending on the specific type of vehicle or equipment.  For example, for a snow plow, the information would include whether the plow is up or down and material usage information.  The subsystem may also contain capabilities to monitor vehicle systems to support maintenance of the vehicle itself and other sensors that monitor environmental conditions including the road condition and surface weather information.  This subsystem can represent a diverse set of mobile environmental sensing platforms, including wheeled vehicles and any other vehicle that collects and reports environmental information.

Elements

• PennDOT D1 Vehicles

• PennDOT D10 Vehicles

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