Kemp, LanaSteenkamp, Anton JDe Saxe, CC2021-10-092021-10-092021-09Kemp, L., Steenkamp, A.J. & De Saxe, C. 2021. High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128 .http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128The substantial road maintenance backlog in South Africa, coupled with an inadequate budget allocation, requires high impact solutions in order to preserve the 158 000 km paved road network. Focussing efforts on the heavy vehicles operating on these routes, by ensuring they are more road friendly and payload-efficient, could potentially preserve and extend the pavement structure life. The Smart Truck demonstration project in South Africa permits high capacity vehicles to operate on approved routes outside the prescriptive South African combination mass and length limits, promoting innovation in productivity, safety and road-friendliness. Each vehicle combination participating in the project is subjected to an infrastructure assessment as a measurement of road-friendliness. The Smart Truck project has already shown an estimated $3.6 million savings in road wear over the past six years. This paper reviews the latest data on the road consumption characteristics of high capacity vehicles participating in the demonstration project and estimates the annual monetary savings of road consumption of these vehicles relative to conventional heavy vehicles.FulltextenHigh capacity vehiclesPayload efficiencyRoad wearConference PresentationKemp, L., Steenkamp, A. J., & De Saxe, C. (2021). High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128Kemp, Lana, Anton J Steenkamp, and CC De Saxe. "High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa." <i>The 16th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport and Technology, China, 7 - 9 September 2021</i> (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128Kemp L, Steenkamp AJ, De Saxe C, High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Kemp, Lana AU - Steenkamp, Anton J AU - De Saxe, CC AB - The substantial road maintenance backlog in South Africa, coupled with an inadequate budget allocation, requires high impact solutions in order to preserve the 158 000 km paved road network. Focussing efforts on the heavy vehicles operating on these routes, by ensuring they are more road friendly and payload-efficient, could potentially preserve and extend the pavement structure life. The Smart Truck demonstration project in South Africa permits high capacity vehicles to operate on approved routes outside the prescriptive South African combination mass and length limits, promoting innovation in productivity, safety and road-friendliness. Each vehicle combination participating in the project is subjected to an infrastructure assessment as a measurement of road-friendliness. The Smart Truck project has already shown an estimated $3.6 million savings in road wear over the past six years. This paper reviews the latest data on the road consumption characteristics of high capacity vehicles participating in the demonstration project and estimates the annual monetary savings of road consumption of these vehicles relative to conventional heavy vehicles. DA - 2021-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR J1 - The 16th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport and Technology, China, 7 - 9 September 2021 KW - High capacity vehicles KW - Payload efficiency KW - Road wear LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2021 T1 - High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa TI - High capacity vehicles road wear impact in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12128 ER -24980