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2. INTRODUCTION
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... of 201. The act called for a study to compare the impacts of truck traffic operating under present federal regulations with the impacts if configurations exceeding present limits were allowed to operate, in terms of effects on safety, infrastructure, cost responsibilities, fuel efficiency, freight transportation costs, the environment, truck traffic volumes, and shares of freight traffic carried by trucks and other freight modes.
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... Office of Freight Management and Operations asked TRB to develop a plan for the research program that was called for in the USDOT final report. In response, TRB organized the Truck Size and Weight Limits Research Plan Committee, which was charged with the following task: This project will develop and recommend a research roadmap to address gaps and uncertainties in estimating the impacts of changes in truck size and weight limits.
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... Following the example of research plans on road transportation topics that the committee has reviewed (ITS Joint Program Office 2015, Shladover and Gettman 2015) , the elements of the research plan will include:  A statement of the objectives of the government activities that the research will support and the relevance of the research results to those objectives  A schedule indicating the sequence of research projects and estimated time requirements  A definition of program tracks -- each track will be a series of interrelated research projects and supporting activities that will require coordination  Research problem statements within each track and phase This interim report describes only the candidate topics for the research problem statements in the plan.
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