WEIGHT OF NUMBERS

Commercial vehicle overloading damages the road surface. Virtual Weigh in Motion (WIM) is a technology developed by the Indiana Department of Transportation, the Indiana State Police and Mettler Toledo in the USA. Traditional methods of monitoring vehicle weight use weight stations or portable scales. Virtual WIM allow the Indiana State Police to be unpredictable. The system records data 24 hours a day that can be used in two ways. Troopers can monitor specific sensor sites and capture violators as the violations occur. Secondly, the data can be analysed historically to determine places and times where overweight vehicles are prevalent. The system was first used in State Route 1 between I-74 and I-275, which is used by trucks to bypass the State of Indiana and Ohio weighing stations.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Loughborough University of Technology. Transport Technology Ergonomics Centre

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  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  Illinois Department of Transportation

  2300 S. Dirksen Parkway
  Springfield, IL  United States  62764

  CSI Wireless Inc.

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  Saab ITS Pty Ltd.

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  Cornet Technology, Inc.

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  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  PTV AG

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• Authors:
  • Lowry, D
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 34-5
• Serial:
  • Traffic Technology International
  • Publisher: AutoIntermediates Limited
  • ISSN: 1356-9252
  • Serial URL: http://www.ukipme.com/mag_traffic.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Equipment; Intelligent transportation systems; Law enforcement; Load limits; Measuring instruments; Motion; Moving industry; Sensors; Trucks; Vehicle weight; Weight
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 1534: Enforcement (law); 3674: Equipment; 1527: Excess load (veh); 8735: Intelligent transport system; 1236: Lorry; 9050: Moving; 6120: Sensor; 8122: USA; 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00933416
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 7 2002 12:00AM