Design and Access Management Guidelines for Truck Routes: Planning and Design Guide
Most laws, ordinances, and rules concerning
truck routes are established for through trucks; however, trucks with
local origins or destinations may use other roads and streets to travel to and from the established
truck routes.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Research Report 943:
Design and Access Management Guidelines for Truck Routes: Planning and Design Guide
helps transportation agencies establish appropriate methods of choosing
truck routes to ensure that the selected roads and streets are suitable for truck travel but do not
decrease efficiency by taking trucks too far out of their way or increase crash risk by increasing
travel distance (and, therefore, vehicle-miles of travel) too much.
This Summary Last Modified On: 10/8/2020