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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"gross vehicle weight"”.
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Optimizing log truck payload through improved weight control
… relatively closely by external sources. Load weight is the focal point of the attention received by log hauling. The optimization of load weights is therefore very important to a logging operation's success and this can be achieved only through adequate gross vehicle weight control. Methods of …
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Artificial Intelligence Driven Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Plan
… transportation has led to longer and heavier vehicles traveling on Florida’s highway system. Vehicles with gross vehicle weight (GVW) over 80,000 pounds, or permit vehicles, have significant effects on infrastructure, thus requiring an approved permit prior to departure. The combination of …
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Influence of road roughness and directional maneuvers on the dynamic performance of heavy vehicles
The gross vehicle weight (GVW) and dimensions of articulated freight vehicles have been considerably relaxed during the past few decades, which have contributed to many concerns related to highway safety and preservation of the roadways. The directional dynamics of articulated heavy vehicles is …
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Truck Modeling Along Grade Sections
… important for the development of an exhaustive vehicle performance procedure. Analysis was done based on data collected at the Troutville weigh station. The characterization involves an analysis of vehicle class distribution, GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) distribution, vehicle volume distribution, …
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Weigh-in-Motion Auto-Calibration Using Automatic Vehicle Identification
… on mainline lanes at highway locations to record vehicle weights, axle spacing, vehicle class, travel speed, vehicle length, and traffic volume. These data elements support effective transportation planning, infrastructure design, and policy development. Therefore, it is important that WIM sensors …
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Auto-Calibration of WIM Using Traffic Stream Characteristics
… algorithms compare the WIM measured weights of vehicles from the traffic stream to reference values, using five-axle tractor-trailer configured trucks for comparisons, e.g. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Class 9. Parameters of the existing algorithms including the Front Axle …
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Integration of Traffic and Structural Health Monitoring Systems Using A Novel Nothing-On-Road (NOR) Bridge-Weigh-In-Motion (BWIM) System
… bridges' integrity and safety further. Bridge weight-in-motion (BWIM) is a system that takes the instrumented bridges as a scale and uses the structure response to compute the trucks' weights with no interruption in the traffic. In a particular type of BWIM, called nothing-on-road BWIM …
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Overweight Vehicle Permitting Alternatives
<p>Overweight vehicles exceed the federal and/or state statutory limits for either the gross vehicle weight (GVW) or the weight of individual axles or axle groups. National and state limits on vehicle weights were established to preserve the highway infrastructure. Past research has shown that …
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Characterization of traffic load and local calibration of the MEPDG for New Mexico
… directional distribution, lane distribution, vehicle class distribution, hourly distribution, monthly distribution, axle load spectra, number of axles per truck class, traffic wander, speed, and tire pressure. Many of these inputs can only be obtained from Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) data. There are …
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Characterization of Ohio Traffic Data for Integration into the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
… (directional and lane distribution factors, vehicle class distribution, monthly adjustment factors, hourly truck distribution factors, and traffic growth factors), (c) axle load spectra by truck class (Class 4 to Class 13) and axle type (single, tandem, tridem, and quad), and (d) general …