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http://onlinepubs.trb.org.../conf/1993/cp3/cp3-005.pdf

This paper rationalizes the need for innovative methods that can ensure adoption of truck designs and configuations that suitably manage both public and private life-cycle costs within a politically realizable framework. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the truck-user industry. The scope of the industry is established and the process by which new trucks are specified and purchased is introduced. These considerations show that because the industry as a whole is highly diverse, the designs of heavy trucks are prescribed to a remarkable degree of detail by each individual purchaser, reflecting only the purchaser's economics unless some other constraint holds sway. Once specified and built, the typical heavy truck lasts such a long time and accrues so many miles that the accumulated public cost attributable to each individual vehicle can be great. Four categories of public cost are addressed in light of the public's exposure to each truck, however designed, over its service life. These are: air pollution from exhaust emissions; roadway deterioration due to truck loading; energy consumption by trucks with its corresponding impact on national energy security and the production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases; and truck-involved crash damage and injury to other road users.

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00667551

English

p. 78-92

1994

Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings

International Symposium on Motor Carrier Transportation

0309055172

Digital/other

Figures (3) ; References (25) ; Tables (1)

Air pollution; Axle load force; Conferences; Energy consumption; Life cycle costing; Motor carriers; Motor vehicles; Size; Truck crashes; Trucking; Trucks; Vehicle design

Vehicle configurations

Design; Energy; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

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