Use of Weight-in-Motion Systems for Data Collection and Enforcement

摘要

The synthesis will be of interest to planners, pavement designers, administrators, and others interested in knowing the actual weights of vehicles using the highways. Information is presented on current uses of weigh-in-motion systems that can obtain the data needed to properly plan and design highways. As truck volumes and weights have increased, it has become more important for highway agencies to have better knowledge of the actual weights of the trucks that are using the highways. The report of the Transportation Research Board describes how weigh-in-motion scales can be used to collect data on truck weights, what uses those data have, and the advantages and disadvantages of using weigh-in-motion systems to collect the data.