Spatiotemporal Analysis of Overloaded Vehicles on a Highway Using Weigh-in-Motion Data
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Volume 148, Issue 1
Abstract
The comprehensive coverage of weighing detection systems at the entry point of every highway in China in 2020 caused congestion and unsafe traffic. In this study, weigh-in-motion data on overloaded vehicles were obtained from the Department of Highway Transportation Management of Jiangsu Province, and a spatiotemporal analysis was performed by utilizing the spatial analysis function of a geographic information system. In addition, the weight of the overloaded vehicles was calculated using the overload rate. Furthermore, the clustering and concentration of the overloaded vehicles were obtained using the global spatial autocorrelation model. The kernel density estimation method was then used to identify areas with severe overloading and calculate the local probability of overloading in that area. Our results revealed that the spatial distribution of the overloading severity was mainly influenced by the per capita income, density of highways, industry type, and freight policy in a given region, and that it was mainly concentrated in transportation hubs and areas with high traffic and complex logistics (e.g., municipal and provincial boundaries). Finally, the temporal aggregation of overloading was primarily affected by the level of law enforcement and freight policy because vehicles with high overload rates were mainly concentrated between 12:00 and 4:00 a.m.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
Data Availability Statement
The data used to support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71573037) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions in China (Grant No. 1105007002).
References
AlGadhi, S. A. H. 2002. “Optimizing truck weigh stations’ locations on the highway network of Saudi Arabia.” J. King Saud Univ. Eng. Sci. 14 (2): 147–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1018-3639(18)30750-5.
Anselin, L., and N. Lozano-Gracia. 2008. “Errors in variables and spatial effects in hedonic house price models of ambient air quality.” Empirical Econ. 34 (1): 5–34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-007-0152-3.
Beiler, M. R. O., G. Miller, and D. Varley. 2019. “Railway trespass prevention: Spatial analysis of incidents to connect to countermeasures.” J. Transp. Eng. Part A Syst. 145 (2): 04018086. https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000209.
Blazquez, C. A., B. Picarte, J. F. Calderón, and F. Losada. 2018. “Spatial autocorrelation analysis of cargo trucks on highway crashes in Chile.” Accid. Anal. Prev. 120 (Nov): 195–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.08.022.
Bosso, M., K. L. Vasconcelos, L. L. Ho, and L. L. B. Bernucci. 2019. “Use of regression trees to predict overweight trucks from historical weigh-in-motion data.” J. Traffic Transp. Eng. 7 (6): 843–859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtte.2018.07.004.
Briz-Redón, Á., F. Martínez-Ruiz, and F. Montes. 2019. “Spatial analysis of traffic accidents near and between road intersections in a directed linear network.” Accid. Anal. Prev. 132 (Nov): 105252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.07.028.
Chance Scott, M., S. Sen Roy, and S. Prasad. 2016. “Spatial patterns of off-the-system traffic crashes in Miami–Dade County, Florida, during 2005–2010.” Traffic Inj. Prev. 17 (7): 729–735. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2016.1144878.
Chen, N., Q. Li, F. Li, and Z. Jia. 2013. “A data processing algorithm based on vehicle weigh-in-motion systems.” In Proc., 2013 9th Int. Conf. on Natural Computation (ICNC), 227–231. New York: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNC.2013.6817975.
Demiroluk, S., K. Ozbay, and H. Nassif. 2018. “Mapping of truck traffic in New Jersey using weigh-in-motion data.” IET Intell. Transp. Syst. 12 (9): 1053–1061. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2018.0055.
Getis, A., and J. K. Ord. 1992. “The analysis of spatial association by use of distance statistics.” Geograph. Anal. 24 (3): 189–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4632.1992.tb00261.x.
Han, W., J. Wu, C. S. Cai, and S. Chen. 2015. “Characteristics and dynamic impact of overloaded extra heavy trucks on typical highway bridges.” J. Bridge Eng. 20 (2): 05014011. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000666.
Hu, L., X. Wu, J. Huang, Y. Peng, and W. Liu. 2020. “Investigation of clusters and injuries in pedestrian crashes using GIS in Changsha, China.” Saf. Sci. 127 (Jul): 104710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104710.
Huang, H., J. Zhou, J. Zhang, W. Xu, Z. Chen, and N. Li. 2019. “Effects of revised toll-by-weight policy on truck overloading behavior and bridge infrastructure damage using weigh-in-motion data: A comparative study in China.” Adv. Civ. Eng. 2019: 5910463. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5910463.
Jia, Z., K. Fu, and M. Lin. 2019. “Tire-pavement contact-aware weight estimation for multi-sensor WIM systems.” Sensors 19 (9): 2027. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19092027.
Kulović, M., Z. Injac, S. Davidović, and I. Posavac. 2018. “Modelling truck weigh stations’ locations based on truck traffic flow and overweight violation: A case study in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Promet-Traffic Transp. 30 (2): 163–171. https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v30i2.2423.
Kumari, M., K. Sarma, and R. Sharma. 2019. “Using Moran’s I and GIS to study the spatial pattern of land surface temperature in relation to land use/cover around a thermal power plant in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, India.” Remote Sens. Appl.: Soc. Environ. 15 (Aug): 100239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2019.100239.
Ma, F., F. Ren, K. F. Yuen, Y. Guo, C. Zhao, and D. Guo. 2019. “The spatial coupling effect between urban public transport and commercial complexes: A network centrality perspective.” Sustainable Cities Soc. 50 (Oct): 101645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101645.
Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China. 2016. “Chinese law-enforcement standards in the over-loaded transport vehicle driving road management regulations.” Accessed February 11, 2021. http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2016/content_5120703.htm.
Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China. 2019. “Measures for the administration of road transportation safety of dangerous freight (Document 29).” Accessed February 11, 2021. https://www.mot.gov.cn/zhengcejiedu/weixianhuowudaoluyunshu_aqglbf/xiangguanzhengce_wxhw/201911/t20191129_3430339.html.
Momtaz, S. U., N. Eluru, S. Anowar, N. Keya, B. K. Dey, A. Pinjari, and S. F. Tabatabaee. 2020. “Fusing freight analysis framework and transearch data: Econometric data fusion approach with application to Florida.” J. Transp. Eng. Part A Syst. 146 (2): 04019070. https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000294.
Pan, H., and Y. Zheng. 2019. “The development and status quo of freight transport in China.” In Urban freight transportation systems, edited by E. Elbert, C. Friedrich, M. Boltze, and H.-C. Pfohl. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
Ren, H., Y. Shang, and S. Zhang. 2020. “Measuring the spatiotemporal variations of vegetation net primary productivity in Inner Mongolia using spatial autocorrelation.” Ecol. Indic. 112 (May): 106108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106108.
Sarp, G., and S. Duzgun. 2015. “Morphometric evaluation of the Afşin-Elbistan lignite basin using kernel density estimation and Getis-Ord’s statistics of DEM derived indices, SE Turkey.” J. Asian Earth Sci. 111 (Nov): 819–826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.07.022.
Shafabakhsh, G. A., A. Famili, and M. S. Bahadori. 2017. “GIS-based spatial analysis of urban traffic accidents: Case study in Mashhad, Iran.” J. Traffic Transp. Eng. 4 (3): 290–299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtte.2017.05.005.
Shirowzhan, S., S. Lim, J. Trinder, H. Li, and S. M. E. Sepasgozar. 2020. “Data mining for recognition of spatial distribution patterns of building heights using airborne LIDAR data.” Adv. Eng. Inf. 43 (Jan): 101033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2020.101033.
Tillé, Y., M. M. Dickson, G. Espa, and D. Giuliani. 2018. “Measuring the spatial balance of a sample: A new measure based on Moran’s I index.” Spat. Stat. 23 (Mar): 182–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2018.02.001.
Wang, F., and X. Han. 2013. “Research on the optimal density of highway network.” Procedia Soc. Behav. Sci. 96 (Nov): 1556–1565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.177.
Wang, S., H. Liu, H. Pu, and H. Yang. 2020. “Spatial disparity and hierarchical cluster analysis of final energy consumption in China.” Energy 197 (Apr): 117195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.117195.
Wang, X., P. Zhao, and Y. Tao. 2018. “Evaluating impacts of overloaded heavy vehicles on freeway traffic condition by a novel multi-class traffic flow model.” Sustainability 10 (12): 4694. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124694.
Wu, H., Q. Y. Luo, S. Y. Chen, and Z. H. Zhang. 2018. “A scientific judgment on overload transport by subtractive fuzzy c-means algorithm & three-way decisions.” In Proc., 2017 13th Int. Conf. on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD), 1429–1434. New York: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FSKD.2017.8392975.
Yang, Q., W. Chen, Y. Xu, X. Lv, M. Zhang, and H. Jiang. 2018. “Polyphyllin I modulates MALAT1/STAT3 signaling to induce apoptosis in gefitinib-resistant non-small cell lung cancer.” Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 356 (Oct): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2018.07.031.
Yin, C., Y. Liu, X. Wei, and W. Chen. 2018. “Road centrality and urban landscape patterns in Wuhan city, China.” J. Urban Plann. Dev. 144 (2): 05018009. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000441.
Yuan, Y., M. Cave, and C. Zhang. 2018. “Using Local Moran’s I to identify contamination hotspots of rare earth elements in urban soils of London.” Appl. Geochem. 88 (Part B): 167–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.07.011.
Zangeneh, A., F. Najafi, S. Karimi, S. Saeidi, and N. Izadi. 2018. “Spatial-temporal cluster analysis of mortality from road traffic injuries using geographic information systems in West of Iran during 2009–2014.” J. Forensic Leg. Med. 55 (Apr): 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2018.02.009.
Zhang, K., and S. Zhang. 2016. “Testing simulated positive spatial autocorrelation by Getis-Ord general G.” In Proc., 2015 23rd Int. Conf. on Geoinformatics, 1–4. New York: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2015.7378614.
Zhang, L., Q. Meng, and T. Fang Fwa. 2019. “Big AIS data based spatial-temporal analyses of ship traffic in Singapore port waters.” Transp. Res. Part E Logist. Transp. Rev. 129 (Sep): 287–304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2017.07.011.
Zhou, H., H. Huang, P. Xu, F. Chang, and M. Abdel-Aty. 2019. “Incorporating spatial effects into temporal dynamic of road traffic fatality risks: A case study on 48 lower states of the United States, 1975–2015.” Accid. Anal. Prev. 132 (Nov): 105283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.105283.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Volume 148 • Issue 1 • January 2022
Copyright
© 2021 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Mar 6, 2021
Accepted: Aug 31, 2021
Published online: Oct 18, 2021
Published in print: Jan 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Mar 18, 2022
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.
Cited by
- Hailu Yang, Yue Yang, Guanyi Zhao, Yang Guo, Linbing Wang, Development and Temperature Correction of Piezoelectric Ceramic Sensor for Traffic Weighing-In-Motion, Sensors, 10.3390/s23094312, 23, 9, (4312), (2023).
- Chuansheng Jiang, Chenyu Hao, Mingrong Zeng, Yan Wang, Peiyi Liu, Formation and evolution mechanisms of truck overweight phenomenon in mainland China: Systematic and historical perspectives, Safety Science, 10.1016/j.ssci.2022.106005, 159, (106005), (2023).