METHOD TO EVALUATING THE ECONOMICAL IMPACT ON TRUCKING BY A CHANGE IN HIGHWAY CLASSIFICATION

摘要

Highway planning efforts, in our country, have been focused on infrastructure investment due to the road-damaging caused by the continuous transit of heavy vehicles. In this paper a different paradigm is evaluated changing technical specifications on roads to avoid the transit of heavy vehicles so it is presented a comprehensive methodology that identifies critical links and allows evaluating network performance in terms of cost, traffic and pollution. Using a real network, and a case study it is demonstrated that the approach yields reliable results for planners.