Moving Freight with Better Trucks Improving Safety, Productivity and Sustainability
This report identifies potential improvements in terms of more effective safety and environmental regulation for trucks, backed by better systems of enforcement, and identifies opportunities for greater efficiency and higher productivity. The report is based on a review of literature, consultation...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2011.
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| Series: | ITF Research Reports,
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706537806719 |
Table of Contents:
- ""INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT FORUM""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""KEY MESSAGES AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""Context""; ""Key Messages""; ""Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 1. TRENDS IN ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT""; ""1.1. The role of road freight transport""; ""1.2. Perspectives and issues for this report""; ""1.3. Features of the history of trucking""; ""1.4. Public perception and amenity""; ""1.5. Trends in road freight policies""; ""1.6. Evolution of freight transport in OECD and ITF countries""; ""1.7. Road freight costs""; ""1.8. Road pricing for trucks""
- ""CHAPTER 2. LOGISTIC CHALLENGES IN THE ROAD TRANSPORT MARKET""""2.1. Loading capacity � Massing out""; ""2.2. Transport as an element in logistics decision making""; ""2.3. Transport decision making""; ""2.4. Logistics drivers and trends""; ""2.5. Organisational structure of the road freight transport sector""; ""2.6. Development of costs, prices and margins""; ""2.7. The availability of skilled drivers""; ""2.8. The efficiency of road freight transport""; ""2.9. Challenges in the market for road freight transport services""; ""2.10. Public interventions in logistics processes""
- ""2.11. Conclusions""""CHAPTER 3. REGULATION OF ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT""; ""3.1. The regulatory framework""; ""3.2. Technical vehicle standards""; ""3.3. Weights and dimensions""; ""3.4. Trends in heavy vehicle technical standards""; ""3.5. Environmental Standards""; ""3.6. Truck operations""; ""3.7. Drivers""; ""3.8. Transport operators""; ""CHAPTER 4. EVALUATION OF TRUCK PERFORMANCE""; ""4.1. Benchmarking concept""; ""4.2. Vehicle benchmarking method""; ""4.3. Vehicles""; ""4.4. Performance measures""; ""4.5. Results""; ""4.6. Influences on performance measures""; ""4.7. Results summary""
- ""4.8. Productivity and efficiency benchmarking""""4.9. Calculating power and energy""; ""4.10. Impacts of trucks on pavements and bridges""; ""4.11. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES""; ""5.1. Local air pollutants""; ""5.2. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions""; ""5.3. Noise emissions""; ""5.4. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 6. HEAVY TRUCK SAFETY""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Recent trends in fatal truck crashes""; ""6.3. Truck crash patterns""; ""6.4. Accident causation factors""; ""6.5. Measures to improve the safety of trucks""
- ""6.6. Vehicle technology - Driver support and communication systems""""6.7. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 7. INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES""; ""7.1. Introduction""; ""7.2. The effect of truck traffic on pavements""; ""7.3. The effects of trucks on bridges""; ""7.4. Safety barriers, piers, bridge supports and expansion joints""; ""7.5. Impacts on road traffic""; ""7.6. Tunnels""; ""7.7. Intermodal terminals""; ""7.8. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 8. CURRENT USE OF HIGHER CAPACITY VEHICLES""; ""8.1. Introduction""; ""8.2. Status regarding the operation of Higher Capacity Vehicles in OECD/ITF countries""
- ""8.3. Assessment of impacts of Higher Capacity Vehicles: overview and conclusions of main studies""
