The objective of this project was to determine the feasibility of a national heavy-vehicle monitoring system (HVM). A system was required which would provide information on the location and characteristics of heavy trucks and their use of the nation's highways. The information would be collected by using new technologies for weighing (trucks)-in-motion (WIM), automatic vehicle classification (AVC), automatic vehicle identification (AVI), automatic vehicle location (AVL), and onboard computer vehicle management systems (OBC/VMS). This information would then be relayed to other locations by ground or satellite communication links, processed by computers, and made available to users. The research focused on five major concerns: markets, technology, legal and institutional issues, organisation and management, and impacts, costs, and benefits. (A)
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