Designing a machine for picking up litter along Minnesota highways : technical summary.

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• Creators:
  Chaplin, Jonathan
• Corporate Creators:
  CTC & Associates LLC
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Minnesota
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Environment Environmental Quality Highways Litter Wastes
• Publication/ Report Number:
  2008-21TS
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Minnesota
• Edition:
  Technical summary.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services Section
• Abstract:
  Collecting trash by hand along grassy highway shoulders and medians in the Twin Cities
  
  metropolitan area costs about $2 million per year. “Harvesting” trash in this manner is
  
  a time-consuming task that also presents serious safety hazards for Mn/DOT workers.
  
  Although there are machines that can remove trash from flat, smooth, paved surfaces,
  
  none have been designed to pick up litter from grassy areas or slopes without removing
  
  grass or clippings. Designing an off-road trash harvester would make the process of
  
  picking up trash easier, safer, faster and more cost-effective. In addition, fewer
  
  employees would be needed for trash pickup, freeing up some of them for other
  
  assignments.
  
  By 2006, Mn/DOT had completed Phase I of a project to develop an automated
  
  alternative. Investigators researched existing machines, technologies and components,
  
  and developed an initial set of machine specifications, including dimensions, operational
  
  speed and stability.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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  urn:sha256:63b312a8ad0cdc1af1ddceeb08cdb11feaada057a296f266e641fe60653be156
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17874/dot_17874_DS1.pdf
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