COMPUTER MODEL FOR TRANSPORT COSTS

The Swedish Road and Traffic Institute has developed a computer model which can, given roughness and wear of the pavement, its width, horozontal and vertical alignment, the speed limits in force and the road conditions, calculate the following values for different types of vehicles: fuel consumption and fuel costs; tire wear and tire costs; costs of repairs, service and maintenance of the vehicle. The model can also compute an indirect measure of road deterioration arising through the roughness of the road. In order to provide data for the cost/road surfaces relation in the model, experimental and theoretical studies have been made of the way in which tire wear is influenced by the coarseness of the road surface. It has been found that tire wear increases with increasing rough coarseness of the surface, although, it is observed, the results are not conclusive.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  International Road Federation

  525 School Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20024
• Publication Date: 1987-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 7
• Serial:
  • World Highways/Routes du Monde
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 0964-4598
  • Serial URL: http://www.worldhighways.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Fuel consumption; Mathematical models; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Repairing; Roughness; Simulation; Tires; Transportation; Vehicle maintenance; Vehicles; Wear
• Uncontrolled Terms: Repairs; Transportation models
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00474700
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1987 12:00AM