Development of a Proposed Overweight Vehicle Permit Fee Structure in Illinois

Permits are one of the most effective and common tools for state agencies to regulate the operation of overweight and oversize vehicles by ensuring the safety of passenger and freight traffic and minimizing damage to pavements and bridges while promoting commerce and the safe movement of goods and services. Although the State of Illinois uses a relatively comprehensive permit system, many of its parts have not been revised for more than 30 years. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate and recommend revisions to the current permit system by evaluating up-to-date impacts of overweight vehicles. In this study, impacts of overweight (OW) vehicles were evaluated in three aspects (bridge, pavement, and traffic safety) and individual fees were developed for each. The most recent databases on infrastructure condition and state-of-the-art prediction/classification algorithms were employed to produce the realistic and up-to-date assessment of OW vehicles' impact. Finally, two approaches were recommended to combine individual fees. The first approach requires developed frameworks for calculating individual fees to be integrated with existing geographic information system based online permit tools that are currently used by many state departments of transportation (DOTs). These tools compute the fee for each vehicle by reporting a route based on user-input origin/destination. The information specific to each overweight vehicle (e.g., mile, axle spacing, weight, bridge inventory rating) can be extracted from the reported routes and injected into developed frameworks. Thereby, the fee can be computed in fairer and more accurate way. The second approach is converting the frameworks into a formula to conform to the conventional permit fee calculation schemes (e.g., table format).

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT055 Standing Committee on Truck Size and Weight.
• Authors:
  • Gungor, Osman Erman
  • Petit, Antoine Michel Alain
  • Qiu, Junjie
  • Zhao, Jingnan
  • Meidani, Hadi
  • Wang, Hao
  • Ouyang, Yanfeng
  • Al-Qadi, Imad L
  • Mann, Justan
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Calculation; Evaluation and assessment; Fees; Geographic information systems; Heavy duty trucks; Impacts; Overweight loads; Pavements; Permits; Recommendations; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658057
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-02305
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 26 2018 9:47AM