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Title:

A Case Study of Overweight Traffic on Pavement Costs: Application of Overweight Permit Database in Analyzing Impact of Shale Gas Development on Louisiana Roadways

Accession Number:

01659640

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Previous studies investigated the overall impact of the shale gas development on infrastructures without differentiating overweight trips from non-overweight ones. This may result in a difficulty in the damage cost recovery of those overweight trips through issuing overweight permits. In addition, the heavy truck trips were distributed either based on assumed origins/destinations with a limited number or simply based on the mileage percentages of different roadway classifications in the network. These assumptions may not reveal the actual situation. Therefore, this study aimed to overcome those disadvantages and estimate the impact of the shale gas related overweight truck trips on Louisiana roadways in the network level. RStudio was employed to extract and rearrange the overweight trips in the Haynesville area during 2006-2016 from the oversize/overweight database in a proper format. Network Analyst in the ArcGIS was utilized to assign these overweight trips directly on the roadway network according to the shortest path method. The vehicle miles traveled (VMT) according to roadway classifications were estimated subsequently, and it was found that there were 9.7 million shale-gas related overweight VMT during the period of 2008-2016, which would translate into a damage cost of 17 million USD. On average, the estimated damage cost due to the overweight trips in the construction of a single well would approximate to be $5,264 and the damage cost per overweight mile traveled would be roughly $1.74. Such cost results were found somewhat higher than the current permit fee practice of overweight trucks in Louisiana. Therefore, future study on a project level cost analysis is warranted.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFD10 Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-03078

Language:

English

Authors:

Sun, Xiaohui
Wu, Zhong
Gaspard, Kevin
Rupnow, Tyson

Pagination:

5p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

ArcGIS

Uncontrolled Terms:

Pavement damage

Geographic Terms:

Haynesville (Louisiana); Louisiana

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pavements

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-03078

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 10:44AM