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Sustainability is the effort to preserve at least the same freedoms of choices and levels of resources for our grandchildren that we enjoy today. Mobility is critical to these choices and resources. Transportation today is not sustainable. Yet, before we lose hope, the mobility industry has made large strides to becoming sustainable. The automobile today represents one of the single most sustainable durable products that exist. This paper explores the challenges that automotive engineers will face in the near future in the attempt to achieve sustainability. In doing so, this paper attempts provide automotive engineers to place their contributions to sustainability in an achievable framework.

A major task of road and airfield maintenance for transportation departments in the Northern United States and in cold regions globally is snow removal. In addition, there is a service industry built on snowplow equipped light trucks to remove snow from vehicle serviceways and parking lots. Thus, a source of stresses on a truck frame are the forces applied by the plow. Unfortunately, very little research has been performed to provide design models that will predict these forces. In this paper, both theoretical and experimental work on developing expressions for snowplow forces will be discussed.