SPR-4606: Overweight Divisible Loads: Permit Administration and Impact on Indiana’s Road Infrastructure and Safety

The study will provide information to Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to support deliverables to the legislature. It will also determine the actual infrastructure performance at permitted routes; and identify any need to revise permit fees to incentivize user behavior. The study will measure the anticipated changes in infrastructure consumption due to any fee changes, document impacts of fee structures on shippers, and explore financial levers to facilitate permitting. Deliverables will include a permit Calculator (for carriers) to calculate benefits of axle addition, and a dashboard (for INDOT) to monitor permitting impacts. Finally, carriers will be surveyed for their perspectives and possible responses to future overweight (OW)-permitting initiatives.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $250000
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR-4606

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Purdue University/Indiana Department of Transportation JHRP

  Purdue University
  1284 Civil Engineering Building, Room 4154
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-1284
• Principal Investigators:

  Labi, Samuel

  Dunlop, Steven

  Sinha, Kumares

• Start Date: 20210607
• Expected Completion Date: 20231006
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fees; Highway safety; Impacts; Incentives; Infrastructure; Motor carriers; Overweight loads; Permits; Surveys
• Geographic Terms: Indiana
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01774044
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPR-4606
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 10 2021 3:38PM