A NOTE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN WEIGH-IN-MOTION SCALE

Throughout the last decade, there has been increasing awareness in many countries of the need for information on the spectrum of axle loads against a background in which existing road networks were being tested to the limit by a steady increase in road transportation of goods. A greatly disproportionate amount of the damage to road structure is due to heavier axle-loads. It is particularly true in Ireland that, in recent years, the road network is approaching a critical state. Axle load spectra are important as input to overlay and new road design schemes and also bridge design. Dynamic weighbridges may also be used as pre-selectors in an enforcement scheme, if placed upstream from a static weighbridge installation. They may also give traffic flow information and vehicle speed data. The Saskatchewan model in fact can do all of these things. (TRRL)

  • Corporate Authors:

    National Institute for Phys Planning & Constr Res

    St Martin's House, Waterloo Road
    Dublin 4,   Ireland 
  • Authors:
    • Golden, J M
  • Publication Date: 1982-12

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 33 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00391080
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: An Foras Forbartha Teoranta
  • Report/Paper Numbers: RC 256 Monograph
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM