Vehicle Operating Costs Related to Operating Mode, Road Design, and Pavement Condition

Abstract

From 1979 through 1982 the Federal Highway Administration contracted with the Texas Research and Development Foundation to update vehicle operating cost tables. In this research five components of vehicle operating cost were studied, including fuel consumption, maintenance and repair, oil consumption, tire consumption, and depreciation. The approach used in this research was to identify the consumption involved for each of these parameters and then to price these components to obtain vehicle operating costs. This approach allows future updating of the vehicle operating cost tables from simply knowing the changes in prices. This is highly desirable since component consumption changes much less frequently than the unit prices. The results of this research present a new set of table relating vehicle operating costs to the serviceability index of pavements and the geometric design features of the roads. The component consumption tables were established for constant speed and speed change cycle operations.

An overview of various new road profile quality evaluation criteria: part 2

“…Figure 17 agrees well with a study reported by Jones and Robinson (1986) which shows that truck operating costs will roughly double between IRI of 3 and 7 m/km. The tyre wear calculated yields an excellent linear correlation and Figure 18 agrees with findings of Zaniewski and Butler (1985) who showed that, between a road in good and very bad states, tyre costs increase by 182% for trucks and 316% for cars and small trucks.…”

“…Zaniewski and Butler (1985) showed that the increase in vehicle operating costs on a degraded road surface was 80 times greater than the cost of restoring the road. Many reports also link poor pavement quality to substantial consequences on vehicle wear (Rakheja et al 2001, Howe et al 2004, FAA 2009.…”

“…In fact, Rice (1997) reports that more than 60% of the failures in construction vehicles are caused by fatigue. As for the numerical evaluation of tyre wear, frictional energy is often relied upon (Savkoor 1966, Zaniewski and Butler 1985, Veith 1986, Knisley 2002, Aukland et al 2003, Cho et al 2011. Hence, fatigue and frictional energy analyses were selected to evaluate suspension and tyre wear, respectively.…”

Precision Bounds of Pavement Deterioration Forecasts from Connected Vehicles

“…Practitioners have long recognized that rough roads increase vehicle operating costs (Zaniewski and Butler 1985) and lead to more expensive road repairs (AASHTO 2009). Studies have also linked rough roads to motion sickness (Griffin 1990) National Road and Transport Research Institute 2004).…”

Goal Programming Framework for Prioritization of Low-Volume Road Projects Considering Network Accessibility and Stakeholders’ Preferences

“…Various evaluation criteria were used in the past to make investment decisions for proposed projects or evaluate past projects. These evaluation criteria include travel time, vehicle operating cost (VOC), safety, and economic efficiency ( 4 – 12 ). Other criteria were employed to assess transportation projects’ impacts on land use, the social and biological environments, economic development, asset resilience, aesthetics, air quality, water resources, and noise ( 6 , 13 – 21 ).…”