Automating the updated grade severity rating system (GSRS) using the Visual Basic.net programming language
Open Access
- 19 November 2022
- journal article
- Published by Centre of Sociological Research, NGO in Journal of Sustainable Development of Transport and Logistics
- Vol. 7 (2), 53-68
- https://doi.org/10.14254/jsdtl.2022.7-2.4
Abstract
Truck crashes on steep downgrades due to excessive brake heating, resulting from brake applications to control speeding, are a continuing cause of concern for the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT). In 2016, WYDOT funded a project to update the existing Grade Severity Rating System. Furthermore, in 2020, WYDOT commissioned a research project to automate the updated version of the mathematical model through an interactive, intuitive, aesthetically appealing and user-friendly Visual Basic.net objected-oriented software to simplify the computation of the maximum safe descent speed on these downgrades based on the truck weight. The software provides functionality for both the continuous Slope and separate downgrade methods. The primary beneficiaries of this software will be the highway agencies who will be able to estimate the maximum safe speed of descent for trucks with various weight categories and hence produce Weight Specific Speed (WSS) signs for each downgrade or a multigrade section.Keywords
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