Development of Truck Overloading Automatic Detection System Based on TPMS

Chen, Qingzhang; Guo, Lishu

doi:10.1109/icmtma.2010.377

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“…Overload control strategies should focus on regions and not one stretch of road. Further, Chen [73] suggests that mobile weighbridges could be used to identify severely overloaded trucks before being escorted to weighbridges. However, this "first best" solution would create massive demands for a skilled work force.…”

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Lowering Transport Costs and Prices by Competition: Regulatory and Institutional Reforms in Low Income Countries

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High passenger and freight transport costs are a barrier to economic growth and social mobility, particularly in Low Income Countries (LICs). This paper considers the current state of knowledge regarding the barriers to achieving lower generalised transport costs. It considers both the road and railway modes across passenger and freight transport. These issues include a reform on the regulations for driver hours (preventing the road infrastructure from overloading), structuring rail concessions, increasing competition, and tackling corruption. Such reforms aim to deliver efficiency gains and service quality improvements at lower costs for users. This paper identifies the knowledge gap in previous research and concludes by setting out a research agenda that builds the evidence base for how the best practices from around the world can best be applied to the specific circumstances in Low Income Countries, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. road transport is dominant, but rail still has a non-trivial mode share in both the passenger and freight market. In LICs, experience varies. In Sub-Sharan Africa, the lack of railway infrastructure means that, for passenger flows outside of the long distance segment (which is small in any case), the road mode is dominant. As such, the rail transport that exists is biased towards freight. In South Asia, however, LICs can have substantive railway transport focused on passenger flows (for example in Bangladesh and Myanmar).More broadly, road and rail services are different because roads are open to private users whilst rails have much stronger access restrictions. Studies on the regulation, concession design, and institutional skills requirements for planning, designing, and monitoring transport services have been reviewed. Given the access restrictions in rail, these issues are more applicable to the rail sector. The situation for roads is different, where the state usually provides the infrastructure either directly or indirectly via letting tenders, but private users are also free to use the infrastructure. The issues with respect roads are more focused on regulations on driver hours, road safety, and preventing the over loading of vehicles and tackling corruption. Such reforms aim to deliver efficiency gains and service quality improvements at lower costs for users.Common to both road and rail are the long and costly clearance times at border crossings. Arvis [4] shows that the cost in the bottom three quintile LICs is three times higher, and its paperwork twice as high as that for the top two quintiles LICs. The literature also indicates that transit time and the reliability of transit impact freight choices and that cross-border delays significantly increase freight tariffs. Existing evidence on alternative technologies that can help improve cross border crossing is also considered. In many LICs, it is clear that the opportunities presented by strategic roads and rails are not being fully realised for a variety of reasons.Specific experiences in LICs...

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confidence: 99%