Effects of overweight vehicles on NYSDOT infrastructure.

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• Creators:
  Ghosn, Michel ; Fiorillo, Graziano ; Gayovyy, Volodymyr ; Getso, Tenzin ; Ahmed, Sallem ; Parker, Neville
• Corporate Creators:
  City University of New York. City College. Dept. of Civil Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  New York (State). Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Overweight loads
  • Trucks
  • Weigh in motion
  • Bridges
  • Pavements
  • Fatigue (Mechanics)
  • Algorithms
  • Cost allocation
  • Permits
• Publication/ Report Number:
  C-08-13
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New York
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  This report develops a methodology for estimating the effects of different categories of overweight ; trucks on NYSDOT pavements and bridges. A data mining algorithm is used to categorize truck ; data collected at several Weigh-In-Motion stations around the state of New York based on the ; trucks’ adherence to the state’s legal weight limits. The data indicate that about 11% of the trucks ; traveling on New York highways may be carrying divisible load permits, 1% may be carrying ; special hauling permits, while about 6% may be illegally overweight ; The analysis shows that these overweight trucks are increasing the risk to failure of bridges by ; causing stresses above those specified in design specifications and by reducing bridge service ; (fatigue) lives through repetitive overloading. A monetization of the safety margin utilization due ; to the combined overstress and cyclic fatigue shows that trucks carrying divisible load permits ; may be responsible for $50M per year in NYS bridge infrastructure cost, trucks with special ; hauling permits may be responsible for $2M/yr in additional cost while illegally overweight trucks ; may be responsible for $43M per year for a total of $95M/yr. ; The cost allocation study performed on the NYS pavement network shows that the cost to ; NYS pavements due to overweight trucks is about $145M/yr divided into $78M/yr for divisible load ; permits, $7M/yr for special hauling permits and $60M/yr for illegally overweight trucks.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  55505-03-02
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29703/dot_29703_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.77 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cc4266065b99d983aabbef32f4f3465314eb4ad0173afafa6dcef4c2b3db241e