Moving Freight with Better Trucks [electronic resource] : Improving Safety, Productivity and Sustainability
Publishing, OECD.
Forum, International Transport.
International Transport ForumContent Provider
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2011.
Description based upon print version of record.
""INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT FORUM""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""KEY MESSAGES AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""Context""; ""Key Messages""; ""Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 1. TRENDS IN ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT""; ""1.1. The role of road freight transport""; ""1.2. Perspectives and issues for this report""; ""1.3. Features of the history of trucking""; ""1.4. Public perception and amenity""; ""1.5. Trends in road freight policies""; ""1.6. Evolution of freight transport in OECD and ITF countries""; ""1.7. Road freight costs""; ""1.8. Road pricing for trucks""
""CHAPTER 2. LOGISTIC CHALLENGES IN THE ROAD TRANSPORT MARKET""""2.1. Loading capacity â€? Massing out""; ""2.2. Transport as an element in logistics decision making""; ""2.3. Transport decision making""; ""2.4. Logistics drivers and trends""; ""2.5. Organisational structure of the road freight transport sector""; ""2.6. Development of costs, prices and margins""; ""2.7. The availability of skilled drivers""; ""2.8. The efficiency of road freight transport""; ""2.9. Challenges in the market for road freight transport services""; ""2.10. Public interventions in logistics processes""
""2.11. Conclusions""""CHAPTER 3. REGULATION OF ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT""; ""3.1. The regulatory framework""; ""3.2. Technical vehicle standards""; ""3.3. Weights and dimensions""; ""3.4. Trends in heavy vehicle technical standards""; ""3.5. Environmental Standards""; ""3.6. Truck operations""; ""3.7. Drivers""; ""3.8. Transport operators""; ""CHAPTER 4. EVALUATION OF TRUCK PERFORMANCE""; ""4.1. Benchmarking concept""; ""4.2. Vehicle benchmarking method""; ""4.3. Vehicles""; ""4.4. Performance measures""; ""4.5. Results""; ""4.6. Influences on performance measures""; ""4.7. Results summary""
""4.8. Productivity and efficiency benchmarking""""4.9. Calculating power and energy""; ""4.10. Impacts of trucks on pavements and bridges""; ""4.11. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES""; ""5.1. Local air pollutants""; ""5.2. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions""; ""5.3. Noise emissions""; ""5.4. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 6. HEAVY TRUCK SAFETY""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Recent trends in fatal truck crashes""; ""6.3. Truck crash patterns""; ""6.4. Accident causation factors""; ""6.5. Measures to improve the safety of trucks""
""6.6. Vehicle technology - Driver support and communication systems""""6.7. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 7. INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES""; ""7.1. Introduction""; ""7.2. The effect of truck traffic on pavements""; ""7.3. The effects of trucks on bridges""; ""7.4. Safety barriers, piers, bridge supports and expansion joints""; ""7.5. Impacts on road traffic""; ""7.6. Tunnels""; ""7.7. Intermodal terminals""; ""7.8. Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 8. CURRENT USE OF HIGHER CAPACITY VEHICLES""; ""8.1. Introduction""; ""8.2. Status regarding the operation of Higher Capacity Vehicles in OECD/ITF countries""
""8.3. Assessment of impacts of Higher Capacity Vehicles: overview and conclusions of main studies""
Trucks -- Environmental aspects.
Trucks -- Law and legislation.
Trucks -- Safety measures.
Trucks -- Safety regulations.
Trucks.
Trucks
Trucking
Freight and freightage
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Automotive Engineering