Effects of Truck Size and Weights on Highway Infrastructure and Operations

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• Creators:
  Luskin, David M. ; Walton, C. M.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucks
  • Trucks by number of axles
  • Trucks by weight
  • Highway operations
  • Bridges
  • Crashes
  • Highway infrastructure
  • Texas
  • Traffic patterns
  • Truck size
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Abstract:
  To facilitate cross-border traffic, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) calls for harmonization of truck standards among the trade partners. Combined with the desire of U.S. industry to reduce freight costs, this aspect of NAFTA has stimulated interest in how liberalization of truck size and weight limits in the U.S. would affect highway infrastructure and safety. This summary report distills the findings from the relevant literature, to which a major recent addition was the Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation (2000).
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14861/dot_14861_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 420.59 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cb08148e68d034e0181c504ca926bf105b6efd3bef208e5b76a330b4ecdbb2894f2c795a6a58edd85bfa4884e646f91ca31389c608713473a09196c0097cd46a