A significant proportion of worker fatalities within Australia result from truck-related incidents. Truck drivers face a number of health and safety concerns. Safety culture, viewed here as the beliefs, attitudes and values shared by an organisation's workers, which interact with their surrounding context to influence behaviour, may provide a valuable lens for exploring safety-related behaviour...

Non Destructive Testing applied to railway axles is performed both in production and in maintenance. During production, NDT is carried out at different stages adopting different techniques, while during maintenance (in-service inspection) only ultrasonic testing is usually carried out. The present paper is focused on some aspects of calibration related to the in-service inspection of railway ax...

Most of previous studies employed dynamic stability test and Hamburg wheel tracking to investigate permanent deformation characteristics asphalt concrete (AC) layer. However, the performance only focuses on surface course neglected influence middle layer base course. The present study investigates four (4) different configurations flexible pavement analyzes contribution AC total as response var...

Bridge Weigh-in-Motion systems can be used to estimate vehicle parameters such as velocity, axle loads, or the distance between axles without affecting the traffic. These parameters and the classification of vehicles are necessary to determine vehicle overload and hence may help to reduce risks for road users and road infrastructure and allow optimized planning of maintenance work. The Bridge W...

The toll rate charged for the usage of facilities such as a tunnel or a bridge is usually proportional to the number of axles possessed by a vehicle. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine the number of axles of a vehicle by the toll-booth operator and therefore, an automatic system that can identify the number of axles is sought. Instead of detecting the axle, wheels of a vehicle are ...

The objective of the present study was to document current commercial practices during long haul transport (≥400 km) of cattle in Alberta through surveys delivered to truck drivers (6,152 journeys that transported 290,362 animals). The live beef export industry to the United States (89% of all journeys) had a large influence on long haul transport. This was particularly true for fat cattle goin...

An example of the experimental validation of a finite element model of a selected heavy vehicle is presented in the paper. A truck tractor with a three a xle single drop low boy trailer and the total weight of 20 t ons was selected as a representative for the tests. The major goal of the conducted studies w as to develop a well validated the numerical model of a heavy vehicle applicable for com...

This study combined multiple approaches to evaluate the structural and economic impact of using new-generation wide-base tires (NG-WBT) in New Brunswick, Canada. A three-dimensional finite-element model a typical pavement structure used Brunswick was predict critical responses. The includes measured tire-pavement contact forces among other variables overlooked conventional flexible analysis app...