COST ALLOCATION IMPLICATIONS OF DYNAMIC WHEEL LOADING

The recovery of agency costs in the provision of highway infrastructure is achieved through the process of highway cost allocation. Cost responsibilities are usually assigned to various highway users in terms of the relative consumption of the infrastructure. In this paper, the implications of knowledge of dynamic wheel load for assigning cost responsibilities are presented. Pavement and vehicle characteristics are shown to have noticeable effects on the cost shares between different vehicle configurations and operating weights. Heavy vehicles equipped with road-friendly air suspension systems are responsible for joint pavement costs that are about 5% less than those equipped with steel spring suspensions when operated at similar speeds, payload, and on identical pavement conditions. Given that road- and bridge-friendly suspension systems are becoming increasingly popular, cost allocation, in terms of dynamic loads, provides a fair basis for assigning costs to heavy trucks.

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  Inderscience Enterprises Limited

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• Authors:
  • Fekpe, E S
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 162-175
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1744-232X
  • EISSN: 1741-5152
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJHVS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air suspension systems; Cost allocation; Cost sharing; Costs; Dynamic loads; Heavy vehicles; Highway user taxation; Infrastructure; Suspension systems; Travelers; Vehicle characteristics; Wheel loads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Operating weights; Pavement characteristics; Spring suspensions
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00782004
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 28 2000 12:00AM