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... SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
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... 2 of the likely impacts of allowing alternative configurations or of the degree of confidence to place in the predictions of impacts. At the least, the report could have provided a framework for understanding all the costs and benefits.
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... 3 finances in each state where the exemptions are in effect. The study does not provide such an overall assessment.
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... 4 practices, and the temporal distribution of travel. The populations of the alternative configurations are likely to differ from the control vehicles in some of these factors.
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... 5  The analysis of pavement and bridge impacts in any future USDOT truck size and weight study should include estimates of costs derived from evaluations of scientifically designed samples of actual pavements and actual bridges selected from the entire U.S. road system.

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