Published In

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

Subjects

Motor vehicle scales -- Texas, Electronic weighing systems -- Texas border region, Traffic flow -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Measurement

Abstract

Weigh-in-motion (WIM) sites are being installed along many highway corridors that carry international trade trucks. Estimating the numbers of trucks carrying international commodities currently relies on manipulating and adjusting trade databases. The variety of vehicle classification data measured at WIM sites provides a rich source of data with which to enhance this adjustment process. Previous WIM border data have focused on port-of-entry truck traffic axle loads, which are heavily influenced by drayage operations. Examined is how WIM data collected at ports of entry and on truck corridors can be used in the determination of standardized truck volumes (termed equivalent trade trucks or ETT) on international highway corridors. Data from the Texas-Mexico border are used to determine ETT North American Free Trade Agreement volumes.

Rights

Copyright, National Academy of Sciences. Posted with permission of the Transportation Research Board. None of this material may be presented to imply endorsement by TRB of a product, method, practice, or policy.

DOI

10.3141/1719-16

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20815

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