GIS-Based Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Routing System

Details

• Creators:
  Adams, Teresa M. ; Malaikrisanachalee, Suphawut ; Blazquez, Carola ; Vonderohe, Alan P.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Wisconsin--Madison. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Wisconsin. Dept. of Transportation. Social Media Peer Exchange Planning Team ; Wisconsin Highway Research Program ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automated clearance
  • Commercial vehicle operations
  • Geographic information systems
  • Routing
  • Trucking
  • Freight transportation
  • Motor carriers
  • Operations
  • Advanced traffic management systems
  • Route guidance
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Wisconsin
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00931449
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Wisconsin. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This project consisted of the design and development of an automated oversize/overweight permit processing application to overcome current paper and labor-intensive processes within the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The application links with various systems for retrieving the customer and vehicle information, evaluating temporal and physical restrictions, performing bridge structural analysis, and route generation. The main program of the application links two programming languages (Java and Visual Basic) that interact with heterogeneous databases for evaluating restrictions and incorporating customer information, an external executable program for verifying bridges on a route, and a GIS tool for route generation and display. The resulting application consists of functions and activities seamlessly combined together to generate route and escort instructions, trip conditions, restricted bridges, and maps that are appended to the permit information available for the motor carrier's use during the trip. The application will improve customer service through faster turnaround time on permit applications causing cost reductions for motor carriers. The automation of permit application will minimize human intervention and alleviate the workload of the transportation agency personnel. Lastly, the application will increase public safety by delivering optimized routes with enhanced accuracy as various datasets are integrated to verify restrictions on the routes.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0092-45-19
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36589/dot_36589_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.08 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e8e9c90bb8908bcfaabe0bb504bb025e047e643ddae6232470bf31787867b356