Evaluation of High Potential Areas for Truck Overweights and Accidents

There are several areas in California that have high incident and accident weights involving overweight trucks. These areas need to be investigated and recommendations made for possible use of Weigh in Motion equipment to assist Law Enforcement in removing these overweight vehicles from the roadway. Areas where overweight trucks may find alternate routes to bypass fixed/static weight stations will be evaluated. Also, potential placement of virtual weight in motion equipment on these routes will be evaluated.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150000.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Project Managers:

  Ibrahim, Majed

• Performing Organizations:

  Regents of the University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States 
• Start Date: 20100615
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120928
• Source Data: RiP Project 27618

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: High risk locations; Highway safety; Human factors in crashes; Law enforcement; Overweight loads; Truck crashes; Truck traffic; Weigh in motion
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01466086
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:10PM