POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS - THE HELP (HEAVY VEHICLE ELECTRONIC LICENCE PLATE) EXPERIENCE

This paper describes the work of the USA's Heavy Vehicle Electronic Licence Plan (HELP) programme, and assesses the experience gained from the on-site evaluation of several technologies that it developed. HELP was a significant commercial vehicle operational research programme, whose integrated system for accurate monitoring of heavy vehicle operations has several advantages. It integrates three types of technologies, with advanced data communications and systems management, into a unified system for monitoring commercial vehicle operations. The technologies, which are described, are: (1) 'weigh- in-motion', to determine vehicles' axle weights and gross weights as they move along a road; (2) automatic vehicle classification; and (3) automatic vehicle identification. HELP's Crescent Demonstration, along a corridor of roads from Texas via California to British Columbia, established several monitoring stations along this corridor. It enabled a field test of HELP's technologies in up to 35 sites each. Its on-site evaluation exercise evaluated the technologies' accuracies, and estimated HELP's impact on normal operating procedures at weigh-stations. Some potential applications of HELP technologies within Europe are considered. For the covering abstract see IRRD 870107.

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• Authors:
  • BOOTH, J
  • HILL, C
  • Faciane, T
• Publication Date: 1994-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 253-64
• Serial:
  • TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND ROAD SAFETY. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR J HELD AT THE 22ND PTRC EUROPEAN TRANSPORT FORUM, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, ENGLAND, SEPTEMBER 12-16, 1994. VOLUME P381
  • Publisher: PTRC Education and Research Services Limited
  • ISSN: 0952-3103

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axle load force; Conferences; Continuous structures; Data collection; Measurement; Motion; Moving industry; Operations research; Surveillance; Technology; Trucks; Weight
• Geographic Terms: Europe; United States
• ITRD Terms: 3067: Axle load; 8525: Conference; 9006: Continuous; 8623: Data acquisition; 8034: Europe; 1236: Lorry; 6136: Measurement; 9050: Moving; 9055: Operational research; 9101: Surveillance; 3855: Technology; 8122: USA; 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00681117
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-271-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 20 1995 12:00AM