Review of U.S. Department of Transportation Truck Size and Weight Study - Second Report: Review of USDOT Technical Reports (2015) / Chapter Skim
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33 4. PAVEMENT The MAP-21 requirements concerning pavement analysis parallel the bridge analysis requirements: the USDOT study is to evaluate the impacts on the infrastructure of vehicles that now operate with grandfather or other exemptions to federal size or weight limits and the infrastructure impacts of allowing operation of alternative configurations, compared with configurations now allowed nationally under federal law.
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34 axle loads are allowed. The report does not state whether the total quantity of truck cargo was held constant in the analysis.
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35 The ranges shown for life-cycle cost estimates (Pavement, 28, Table 12) are simply the results using two values of the discount rate in the calculation of present value of future expenditures.
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36 Reference Abbreviation TRB Transportation Research Board TRB.
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