VEHICLE WEIGH-IN-MOTION WITH FIBRE OPTIC SENSORS

The different measurement requirements to detect and to weigh vehicles in motion on a road, but also for traffic monitoring, required studies and development on new techniques able to improve the current technologies, like piezo-electric systems, to replace or to complement them. The theoretical principle of measurement and some results obtained from a project conducted by the Alcatel Group, in collaboration with French Authorities represented by their laboratories Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees (LCPC), are shown in this paper. The feasibility of using fibre optics applied to Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) is demonstrated. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 871202.

• Corporate Authors:

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (ETH)

  HEONGGERBERG
  ZUERICH,   Switzerland  CH-8093
• Authors:
  • TERAL, S
  • CAUSSIGNAC, J M
  • Siffert, M
• Conference:
  • FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON WEIGH-IN-MOTION OF ROAD VEHICLES, ZURICH, MARCH 8-10 1995
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 333-40

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Dynamics; Fiber optics; Loads; Motion; Moving industry; Photoelasticity; Sensors; Vehicles; Weight
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 5473: Dynamics; 6765: Fibre optics; 5567: Load; 9050: Moving; 5581: Photoelasticity; 6120: Sensor; 1255: Vehicle; 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00682410
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 17 1995 12:00AM