INFRASTRUCTURE-BASED VIRTUAL WEIGH STATION (VWS) AND COMMERCIAL TRUCK IDENTIFICATION
This paper summarizes the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) successful demonstration of a virtual weigh station at Cordelia, California. Live Images of trucks, associated with their weight data were first in show at the 12th World Congress in San Francisco, California, United States of America (USA) in November 2005. Those images and data were the first from a prototype hardware and software demonstration completed just in time for the San Francisco event. Adding technology to existing weigh in motion (WIM) sites and upgrading them to become virtual weigh stations, providing both the weight data and the identity of the truck, shows promise in providing law enforcement with a new tool for enforcing truck weight regulations. - Caltrans started a public/private partnership to investigate use of emerging technologies to upgrade the WIM sites to become virtual weigh stations. This work is ongoing, and is still in the investigation and development phase. - Other states in the USA are also recognizing the need to use technology instead of manpower to address the problem. These states are investigating the technology to assist their law enforcement officers. California and other states recognize that there are significant institutional issues surrounding the use of these technologies, and work is in progress to address them. At a minimum these include the right to privacy and homeland security issues in the USA. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.
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Authors:
- WOOLLEY, R
- Publication Date: 2006
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 8p
- Serial:
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; Conferences; Improvements; Intelligent transportation systems; Law enforcement; Motion; Private enterprise; Prototypes; Public private partnerships; Safety; Simulation; Software; Technology; Trucks; Weighing devices; Weight
- Geographic Terms: United States
- ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 8525: Conference; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9108: Improvement; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 1236: Lorry; 5483: Movement; 9118: Private; 9109: Prototype; 172: Public private partnership; 1665: Safety; 9103: Simulation; 8645: Software; 3855: Technology; 8122: USA; 6195: Weighing apparatus; 5485: Weight
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01087037
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Jan 29 2008 9:28AM