Leader-Follower TMA System

The Missouri Department of Transportation's (MoDOT's) mobile and slow moving operations, such as striping, sweeping, bridge flushing and pothole patching, are critical for efficient and safe operation of the highway transportation system. MoDOT's slow moving operations have been crashed into over 80 times since 2013 resulting in many injuries to MoDOT employees. The objective of this request for proposal (RFP) is to provide a National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 350 Level 3 compliant Leader-Follower truck mounted attenuator (TMA) System capable of operating a driverless rear advanced warning truck in mobile highway operations as described in Traffic Application TA-35a. The system shall consist of a Lead Truck (LT) and a Rear Advanced Warning Truck called the Follow Truck (FT). The goal is to avoid operator injury by eliminating the need for a human operator in the FT.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $549,921
• Contract Numbers:

  TR201813

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Missouri Department of Transportation

  1617 Missouri Boulevard
  P.O. Box 270
  Jefferson City, MO  United States  65102
• Project Managers:

  Harper, Jennifer

• Performing Organizations:

  Micro Systems, Inc.

  35 Hill Avenue
  Fort Walton Beach, FL  United States  32548-3858
• Principal Investigators:

  Rhoades, Jay

• Start Date: 20180305
• Expected Completion Date: 20231231
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway operations; Highway safety; Intelligent vehicles; Slow moving vehicles; Truck mounted attenuators; Warning systems
• Identifier Terms: Missouri Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01668528
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Missouri Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: TR201813
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 4 2018 9:15AM