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OVERLOADING ON HIGHWAYS AND RELATED ISSUES
| 题名： | OVERLOADING ON HIGHWAYS AND RELATED ISSUES |
| 其他题名： | 1 Karim Mohammed Rehan,Abdullah Ahmed Saiful,Yamanaka Hideo,Abdullah Airul Sharizli,Ramli Rehizar"Degree of Overloading and its Implications on Road Safety in Developing Countries"Civil and Environmental Research IISTE Vol 3 No.12,2013. |
| 正文语种： | 英文 |
| 作者： | K.K. Pahuja |
| 关键词： | loading；phenomenon；maintenance；mechanism；application；exchange；congestion；conditions；method；roads |
| 摘要： | Overloading on highways and roads is a serious issue in our country as well as in other developing countries of the world. Although the phenomenon of overloading is not new but so far not much discussion has been done on vehicle overloading in developing countries. It is estimated that about over 50％ of commercial vehicles plying on our national highways and state highways are overloaded. This is particularly serious in the vicinity of mining areas. The legal axle load limits and gross vehicle weight limits are overlooked and violated by the transporters. The problems resulting from overloading are manifold. Newly constructed roads experience accelerated loading conditions resulting in loading to exceed the limits much before their design life gets over. This results in premature failure of roads. The maintenance aspect also becomes tricky due to this factor with the consequent fallout as poor condition of roads or heavy maintenance cost required to keep them in shape. Other negative effects of overloading include increased incidences of road accidents, damage to vehicles, lower speeds and inefficiency, delays to vehicular traffic and congestions. One major area of concern with the practice of overloading is that there is a serious lack of awareness about the practice. Hence there is an urgent need to spread awareness and alarming message to curb this practice. Together with this, methods have to be put in place to identify and catch overloaded vehicles and take strict actions including heavy penalties and seizure of vehicles. A mechanism can be developed whereby the toll plazas are connected with network and are able to exchange vital information about the overloaded vehicles. Methods like weigh-in-motion should be tried along with the possibility of fixing stress and strain gauges at bridge locations which can indicate about overloading. Application of such methods poses challenges but output of such methods will be worth the efforts. |
| 出版年： | 2015 |
| 论文唯一标识： | I-75Y2015V43N09005 |
| 英文栏目名称： | Technical Papers |
| 期刊名称： | Indian Highways |
| 拼音刊名(出版物代码)： | I-75 |
| 卷： | 43 |
| 期： | 09 |
| 页码： | 25-30 |
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