Evaluation of the Percent of Overloaded Vehicles Receiving Proper Permits

Studies have shown that overloaded vehicles can be a detriment to highways. Industries that utilize overloaded vehicles are required to obtain permits to legally haul the loads. In West Virginia, indications are that many overloaded vehicles traveling the highways are not obtaining the proper permits. This can lead to damage to the infrastructure of the West Virginia Department of Highway's (WVDOH's) transportation system. This project will summarize the number and types of overweight permits that are issued as compared to the number of overweight trucks that are measured with the existing weigh-in-motions sensors.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $145000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  213262

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Multimodal Transportation and Infrastructure Consortium

  Marshall University
  1900 3rd Avenue
  Huntington, WV  United States  25703
• Project Managers:

  Nichols, Andrew

• Performing Organizations:

  Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute

  Marshall University
  Huntington, WV  United States  25755
• Principal Investigators:

  Nichols, Andrew

• Start Date: 20130228
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20140228
• Source Data: RiP Project 34006

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Oversize loads; Overweight loads; Pavement distress; Permits; Sensors; Trucks; Weigh in motion
• Geographic Terms: West Virginia
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01503982
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Multimodal Transportation and Infrastructure Consortium
• Contract Numbers: 213262
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 23 2014 1:00AM