Infrastructure for safety and competitiveness

Competitiveness can be defined as the capacity to offer to the clients the better satisfaction at the lowest price, keeping the market share of companies or countries. As is common knowledge, using bigger economies of scale can result in lower transportation costs of the products; in terms of the trucking industry this can be obtained using larger vehicles and carrying more weight. The vehicle weight plus load weight are downloaded on the road surface, this gross weight is distributed along the number of axles. The impact that causes this weight in the road infrastructure can be diminished as the number of axles is increasing as well as using new technologies that allow a better interaction vehicle-road surface. Using vehicles configurations -tractor plus two trailers- has been given great benefits to Mexico, this is the more friendly configuration with environment because its emissions in tonnes per kilometre travelled are lower, this can be explained since it consumes less fuel with load, as well as empty because it can return two trailers to its destination at once, besides its emissions reduction has also reductions in transportation cost which can be translated by offering a lower price to the final consumer.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the World Road Association – PIARC.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

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• Authors:
  • Gomez, L
  • Capiz, A
  • Romero, E
• Conference:
  • 24th World Road Congress
  • Location: Mexico City , Mexico
  • Date: 2011-9-26 to 2011-9-30
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 24th World Road Congress Proceedings: Roads for a Better Life: Mobility, Sustainability and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Environmental impacts; Gross vehicle weight; Heavy vehicles; Pollutants; Tractor trailer combinations; Trucking safety
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502368
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 2840602679
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 2013 11:06AM