Integration of community participation in strategic transport planning : a local experience [use of GPS to allow movement of freight efficient vehicles on the road network].

Author(s)
Taylor, G.J. & Troutbeck, R.
Year
Abstract

Australia's road transport agencies are under increasing pressure to allow transport operators to use large special-combination vehicles (often referred to as freight-efficient vehicles or FEVs) on a larger proportion of the road network. This is at a time when funds to upgrade road infrastructure to cope with these increased demands are extremely tight. This research looks at capability of satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS) in allowing the movement of these FEVs to be monitored with a view to know when they have departed from permitted parts of the road network. This paper demonstrates: (1) The accuracy of GPS now that it is no longer intentionally degraded by the US Military; (2) That an indicator for the quality of GPS data is readily available; and (3) Even quite coarse road network definitions allow acceptably wide road corridors to be monitored. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E205861.

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C 28995 (In: C 28944 CD-ROM) /72 /73 / ITRD E205912
Source

In: ATRF01 : papers of the 24th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), Hobart, Tasmania, 17-20 April, 2001, 13 p.

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