DOT TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT STUDY: COMMENTS ON THE STUDY DESIGN
This report summarizes the discussions of a panel convened by the Transportation Research Board on September 25-26, 1979, to review plans for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Truck Size and Weight Study. The study is to examine the need for, and the desirability of, uniformity in maximum truck size and weight limits throughout the United States. The study is now under way by a group of consultants under contract to DOT. The results are to be submitted to Congress in January 1981. The review panel was selected to be representative of the broad array of interests specified in the Surface Transportation Act of 1978, which called for the study of truck size and weight. The panel raised several broad questions concerning such matters as the scope of the study, the balance of effort within the study, and the adequacy of the data currently available. The panel also provided comments and suggestions on specific tasks in the study design. (Author)
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Corporate Authors:
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Washington, DC United States 20001 - Publication Date: 1980-1
Media Info
- Pagination: 35 p.
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Board Unpublished Report
- Issue Number: 15
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Feasibility analysis; Laws; Load limits; Size; Size and weight regulations; Standardization; Trucks; Trucks by weight; Weight
- Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Motor Carriers; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00371857
- Record Type: Publication
- Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-90086
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Apr 29 1983 12:00AM