Demonstration of a Low-Cost Vehicle Monitoring System for Tractor-Trailers

The ability to identify certain characteristics of the towed trailers has the potential to improve efficacy of existing on board safety systems as well as enabling new technologies to be developed. In this Phase I study, the Contractor will leverage prior related Department of Defense (DOD) funded research, development and commercialization activities to demonstrate key features of a preproduction, second-generation prototype wireless Vehicle Monitoring System (VMS).

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Improve Safety of CMVs

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150000.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590
• Project Managers:

  Hatipoglu, Cem

• Performing Organizations:

  Mainstream Engineering Corporation

  200 Yellow Place
  Rockledge, FL  United States  32955
• Principal Investigators:

  Scaringe, Robert

• Start Date: 20110907
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120306
• Source Data: RiP Project 30669

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle monitoring; Commercial vehicles; Highway safety; Technological innovations; Tractor trailer combinations; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01465256
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RiP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:57PM