OF HEAVY LOADED

VECHICLES ALONG WITH

THEIR IMPACT ON ROAD AND
THE DEFLECTION OCCURRED
ON ITS SURFACE

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ALBEY GEORGE :
961212103004
ALFIN JOSEPH :
961212103006
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GUIDED BY:
Mr . SAMSON C.A

CONTENT OF THE PROJECT

ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
LITERATURE REVIEW
OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
METHODOLOGY
COMPANY DETAILS

ABSTRACT

This report documents the development of an analysis

procedure and an associated computation tool to
estimate the impact of heavy vehicles on highway roads
over kerala . This is done by the guidence of the agency
under the government of INDIA natpac. The heavy
vehicles of interest are those which were not anticipated
at the time the highway structure was designed, but this
cause additional damage and thus create the need of
rehabilitation or reconstruction sooner than expected.
This unexpected heavy vehicles could be generated by
new industrial facilities, mining activities , changes in
urban waste collection patterns, temporary heavy
construction in a limited geographical area , or for other
reason. If the additional damage is occurred over the
surface of the highway that might lead to the
construction of pavements for the accomodation of

INTRODUCTION

This report discribes the development and the

implementation of a tool to estimate the effect of
heavy vehcles on highwys. The mainb focus of the
tool is to determine the effect of additional heavy
vehicles that were unknown and could not have
been considered at the highway have been
designed. This situation could arise due to
comersial facilities bringing additional vehicles on
a perminant basis, the temporary, additional
heavy vehcles required for some major
construction activities, the location of new mining
activitiers and assossiated haul routs, or for other
causes.

LITERATURE REVIEW

AUTHORED BY:
Dr. W.JAMES WILDE,P.E
Center of Transportation Research and
Implementation
Minnesota State University, Mankato
August 2014
Research Project
Volume : Final Report 2014-32

Assessing the Effects of Heavy Vehicles

on
Local Roadways

This report documents the development of an analysis procedure

and an associated computation tool to estimate the impact of
heavy vehicles on local agency pavements. The heavy vehicles of
interest are those which were not anticipated at the time the
pavement structure was designed, but which cause additional
damage and thus create the need for rehabilitation or
reconstruction sooner than expected. These unexpected heavy
vehicles could be generated by new industrial facilities, mining
activities, changes in urban waste collection patterns, temporary
heavy construction in a limited geographical area, or for other
reasons. The tool described in this report implements the
procedure, and provides users with the ability to analyze a single
roadway segment (for detailed impacts estimates) or an agencys
entire network (for summary statistics over the system). The tool
provides estimates of the percent of originally intended life that
may be used by the unanticipated vehicles, the additional
pavement structure that would have been required at
construction to accommodate the additional vehicles, and the
additional damage that they cause. The tool is contained in a
macro-enabled Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and does not need
additional files or external functionality to conduct an analysis.

AUTHORED BY:
Nakul Sathaye, Arpad Horvath and Samer
Madanat
WORKING PAPER
UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-7
VOLUME : August 2009
Unintended Impacts of Increased Truck Loads on
Pavement Supply-Chain Emissions

In recent years, the reduction of freight truck trips has been a

common policy goal.To this end, policies aimed at influencing
load consolidation, load factors and increasing maximum truck
weight limits have been suggested and implemented, resulting
in higher gross vehicle weights.The purpose of such policies
has generally been to mitigate congestion and environmental
impacts.However, trucks cause most of the damage incurred
by pavements.The supply chain associated with pavement
maintenance and construction releases significant air emissions,
raising the question of whether increased vehicle weights may
cause unintended environmental consequences.This paper
presents scenarios with estimated emissions resulting from load
consolidation and changes in load factors.These scenarios
reveal several points having to do with the tradeoff between
tailpipe versus pavement supplychain emissions.In some
cases, unintended emissions from the pavement supplychain
are found to be significant.Emissions associated with
pavement construction are also found to increase as a result of
pavement design specifications that account for heavier trucks

AUTHORED BY:
Anthony Nkem Ede (PhD)
Department of Civil Engineering, College of
Science and Technology, Covenant University,
Canaan Land, KM 10, Idiroko Road, P.M.B. 1023
Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria Phone +234-8060-164058 anthony.ede@covenantuniversity.edu.ng
SOURE AND VOLUME :
International Journal of Civil & Environmental
Engineering IJCEE-IJENS Vol: 14 No: 01
Cumulative Damage Effects of Truck Overloads
on Nigerian Road Pavement

Road infrastructure is one of the basic facilities needed for

the growth and advancement of any modern economy.
The growth of every countrys economy is measured by
the growth of its transport infrastructure. This is very
true of Nigeria as the state of failed roads all over nation
gives a clear picture of the situation of the economy. The
road network system has so failed that travelling within
any part of Nigeria has turned to be the most assiduous
venture for the citizens to undertake. For these reasons,
this research examines the devastating effects of truck
overloads on the road pavement failure in Nigeria. This
research analyses the axle loads of heavy vehicles on
LagosIbadan Expressway to see how they influence the
state of the roads pavement condition. The expected
pavement load was quantified through equivalent single
axle loads (ESALs). Analysis of the data resulted in the
existence of high vehicle damage factors caused by
overloaded heavy vehicles

AUTHORED BY:
Mohamed Rehan Karim1,
Ahmad Saifizul Abdullah,
Hideo Yamanaka ,
Airul Sharizli Abdullah ,
Rahizar Ramli
VOLUME:
Civil and Environmental Research www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-5790 (Paper)
ISSN 2225-0514 (Online)
Vol.3, No.12, 2013
Degree of Vehicle Overloading and its Implication on
Road Safety in Developing Countries

The phenomenon of vehicle overloading is not new and has

been discussed in relation to the adverse effects on road
pavement damage, road safety and GHG emission.
Although much has been said in the context of the more
developed countries, there has not been much discussion
on vehicle overloading in developing countries. In this
study, the extent and degree of vehicle overloading in a
developing country is established. Half of the 3-axle
trucks were found to be overloaded and the degree of
overloading is up to 101% of its legal weight limit! The
effect of truck overloading on safety is discussed by
establishing the relationship between truck stopping
distance and gross vehicle weight for a certain travel
speed. Comparison between actual overloading data for
2- axle, 3-axle and 4-axle trucks and the stopping
distance illustrates the gravity of the situation which
needs a comprehensive and effective strategy from the
relevant agencies.

AUTHORED BY:
Peter Sebaly,
Raj SiddharthaN,
David Huft
VOLUME:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the T

ransportation Research
Board
Volume 1819
Impact of Heavy Vehicles on Low-Volume
Roads

A recent study sponsored by the South Dakota Department of

Transportation evaluated the impact of agricultural equipment on
the actual response of low-volume roads. To meet this objective,
one gravel pavement section and one blotter pavement section
were instrumented in South Dakota and tested under agricultural
equipment. Each section was instrumented with pressure cells in
the base and subgrade and deflection gauges to measure surface
displacement. Field tests were carried out during fall 2000, spring
2001, and summer 2001. Testing in different seasons offered the
opportunity to evaluate the impact of heavy equipment on lowvolume roads under variable environmental conditions: high and
low temperatures and wet and dry conditions. Test vehicles
included two Terragators, a grain cart, and a tracked tractor. The
field testing program collected the pavement responses under five
replicates of each combination of test vehicle and load level and
under the 18,000-lb single-axle truck. Data were examined for
repeatability, and the average of the most repeatable set of
measurements was calculated and used in the analysis. The first
part of the research evaluated the relative impact of the different
equipment, defined as the ratio of pavement response under each
combination of vehicle-load level over the pavement response
under the 18,000-lb single-axle truck.

PURPOSE OF PROJECT

Our project is carried under the guidence of NATPAC

which is a research organisation launched by the gov.

of kerala under the central gov. research scheme.
In this project we are analysing the various highway
roads of 14 districts from trivandrum to kasarcode.
Purpose regarding this project is to check the
measure to reduce road distructions.
Major road distruction in highways are due to the
effect of heavy load vehicles.
In this project we are going to analyse the impact
acting on the highway and also the deflection
occuring in the road.
By this project we could implement the alternatives
to reduce the highway distruction and could make
the highway road even more lasting.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

National Transportation Planning and

Research Centre (NATPAC), an institution

under Kerala State Council for Science,
Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) is only
research and development institution in the
country which works on multi modal system of
transportation covering road, rail, water, seaport
and airport. For last three decades NATPAC has
been handling research and consultancy projects
as per the Country/States requirements in the
areas of traffic engineering and transportation
planning, highway engineering, road safety,
public transport system, alternate options for
transport system, transport energy, inland water
transport, tourism planning and rural roads.

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