Information Guidance System for Rotary Snowplow on Sidewalk to Improve Operation Ability

Abstract

In winter, the northern part of Japan has very deep and heavy snow, and faces the problem of freezing of the road surface. People have difficulty to walk along a sidewalk and to move from place to place in winter. This study aims to achieve efficient wintertime sidewalk administrator by applying developed ITS technologies to the snowplow. This paper describes the analysis of snow removal task on sidewalk, the mechanical type of rotary snowplow, and proposes information guidance system using Head-Up-Display, which is expected to be practically used in the near future.