Evaluation of the percent of overloaded vehicles receiving proper permits.

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• Creators:
  Nichols, Andrew P. ; Chou, Chih-Sheng ; Dayan, Sinaya
• Corporate Creators:
  Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Oversize loads
  • Overweight loads
  • Permits
  • Weigh in motion scales
  • Accuracy
  • Evaluation
  • Trucks
  • Geographic information systems
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RP-271
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  West Virginia. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Highways
• Abstract:
  All state agencies have truck size and weight restrictions on their roadways based on federal and state ; legislation. However, drivers can typically apply for special permits allowing those limits to be exceeded, ; particularly when the load is non-divisible. The permit application often includes the origin and ; destination of the load, as well as characteristics about the truck’s size and weight. This information is ; used by state highway agencies to evaluate the impact of the loading on the roads and bridges that the ; vehicle will cross to determine a preferred route and the need for a police escort. The primary objective ; of this project is to estimate the percentage of overweight trucks on West Virginia highways that are not ; properly permitted by comparing truck weight data measured by weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems and ; oversize/overweight permit records. Analysis of the WIM data revealed concerns with the accuracy of ; the weight data. Therefore, a tuning procedure was developed to adjust the data based on national truck ; characteristics. The route information in the permit database was processed in GIS to determine which ; WIM stations the permitted vehicle should have crossed. The percentage of overweight trucks were ; calculated for five locations using one week of data in 2011. The percentage of overweight trucks ; without proper permits ranged from 2% to 46% based on the adjusted WIM data.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28927/dot_28927_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.30 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:134d6ed752101368d85267bbe1b440061e30e0f9a64db8480231f3eb53b89d30