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Journal

2011 | 7 | 3 |

Article title

THE SYSTEMS OF AUTOMATIC WEIGHT CONTROL OF VEHICLES IN THE ROAD AND RAIL TRANSPORT IN POLAND

Content

Title variants

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Condition of roads in Poland, despite the on-going modernisation works is still unsatisfactory. One reason is the excessive wear caused by overloaded vehicles. This problem also applies to rail transport, although to a much lesser extent. One solution may be the system of automatic weight control of road and rail vehicles. The article describes the legal and organizational conditions of oversize vehicles inspection in Poland. Characterized current practices weighing road vehicles, based on measurements of static technology. The article includes the description of the existing applications of the automatic dynamic weighing technology, known as systems WIM (Weigh in Motion). Additionally, the weighing technology and construction of weighing stands in road and rail are characterized. The article ends with authors' conclusions indicating the direction and ways of improving the weighing control systems for vehicles.

Journal

Year

Volume

7

Issue

3

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Bogusz Wisnicki, Anna Wolnowska, Institute of Transport Engineering, Maritime University of Szczecin, Waly Chrobrego 1-2, 70-500 Szczecin, Poland

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
11PLAAAA101013

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.45648305-e65c-3f84-b337-c718bd0e93c0
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