Towards fair and efficient charging for heavy goods vehicles

In this paper, we have investigated the important factors affecting pavement damage caused by HGVs and how current road track cost allocation methods and HGV charging systems do not, at present, satisfy fully the EC's requirements for a fair, efficient and equitable means of charging for road u...

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Published in12th IEE International Conference on Road Transport Information & Control - RTIC 2004 pp. 231 - 236
Main Authors Dodoo, N.A, Thorpe, N
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Stevenage IEE 2004
Subjects
Applied sciences
Buildings. Public works
Exact sciences and technology
Ground, air and sea transportation, marine construction
Road construction. Pavements. Maintenance
Road transportation and traffic
Road-traffic system control
Surfacing
Traffic engineering computing
Transportation infrastructure
Transportation planning, management and economics
road traffic
traffic information systems
traffic control
heavy goods vehicles
road track cost allocation methods
HGV charging systems
operating environment
Requirement
International conference
Test
Pavement
System description
System design
Road traffic
Taxation
Freight transportation
Damaging
Heavy truck
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Summary:In this paper, we have investigated the important factors affecting pavement damage caused by HGVs and how current road track cost allocation methods and HGV charging systems do not, at present, satisfy fully the EC's requirements for a fair, efficient and equitable means of charging for road use. We discuss the requirements for developing a charging system for HGVs which address some of the main weaknesses with current charging methods. It is hoped that this will make considerable progress towards achieving a fairer, more efficient and transparent means of allocating costs for pavement damage between individual HGVs. This paper presents the research undertaken to develop such a charging system for HGVs and the results from initial on-road field trials are scheduled to be carried out in the coming months with different HGV types (e.g. 2 and 3 axled HGVs) to investigate further the performance of the various components of the system in a more realistic operating environment.
ISBN:0863413862
9780863413865
ISSN:0537-9989
DOI:10.1049/cp:20040035