Asset Insight Technologies, LLC (AIT) is a service company for the winter highway maintenance industry specializing in training, consulting, expert witness services, and applied technology products. AIT is committed to providing the highest quality products and services to winter highway maintenance professionals.

Wilfrid Nixon, Ph. D., P.E. and Robert Stowe, P.E. are the founding partners of AIT. They are joined by associates who are subject matter experts in winter maintenance operations, technology, materials, and equipment. AIT staff and associates include professionals in education, research, engineering, environmental science, maintenance operations, information technology, and public affairs.

Our mission at AIT is:

To make a difference in winter maintenance practices in North America by providing the agencies that perform winter maintenance services with the tools and knowledge they need to make wise decisions.

This means we are committed to assisting winter maintenance professionals carry out their demanding task of snow and ice control. We focus on developing long-term partnerships with our customers.

Customer satisfaction is how we measure our success.

Wilfrid Nixon, Ph. D., P.E.

Wilfrid Nixon is a founding partner of Asset Insight Technologies, LLC. He is a research engineer and professor of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering at the University of Iowa. He has conducted extensive research in winter highway maintenance, ice mechanics, fatigue of ice, ice removal from roads, ice as a structural material, modeling ice structure interaction, and compressive strength of brittle materials. Wilf serves as the chair of the TRB Task Force on Surface Weather and Transportation (AH001-T), a member of TRB AHD65 Winter Maintenance Committee, member of AASHTO Winter Maintenance Policy Coordinating Committee (WMPCC), and member of TRB Committee A5001 Conduct of Research Committee. He has served as a member of the FHWA/AASHTO Scan Team to Japan on ITS and Winter Maintenance, member of a two-person FHWA "Technical Assistance in Winter Maintenance" team to Argentina, and Co-Chair of the 5th TRB/NRC Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control screen Technology. Wilf is the author of more than 90 articles, papers, and reports.

Robert Stowe, P.E, MBA

Robert Stowe is a founding partner of Asset Insight Technologies, LLC. He has 25 years of experience with State Departments of Transportation, including eight years as a District Maintenance Engineer at Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). In 2002 Bob was awarded the Governor's Distinguished Management Leadership Award by Washington Governor Gary Locke and the AASHTO "Pathfinder" Team Excellence Award. Bob represented WSDOT on national committees for winter maintenance. He participated in the Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements need review and the Maintenance Decisions Support System review group. He has presented papers at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and at national and regional winter maintenance conferences. He served on oversight boards for highway maintenance equipment and wireless communications