Accuracy Maps of Weigh-In-Motion Systems for Direct Enforcement

Abstract

The need to protect road infrastructure and the environment, as well as to increase the safety of road users and to ensure fair conditions of competition in road transport, requires an increase in the efficiency of the elimination of overloaded vehicles from road traffic. The replacement of “manual” vehicle control (carried out by inspectors of the relevant services) by automatic control can ensure that these are highly effective. Such control can be implemented directly on the basis of weighing results obtained from weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems. The high sensitivity of WIM systems to various interfering factors is an obstacle to the full implementation of this goal. This paper presents a concept for accuracy maps determined for direct enforcement WIM systems. The use of such maps allows for the minimization of the probability of an error consisting in classifying a normative vehicle as an overloaded one.