Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) in Czech ETS

Karel Feix, CEO Kapsch CZ

• Electronic toll systems based on DSRC are an extensive base for dozens of telematic applications - road user, information about traffic flows/statistics and especially road safety.

• The Czech Republic, as a transit country, has to deal with many overloaded trucks, dominantly contribute to the destruction of roads.

• The Czech Republic (the Transport Ministry) decided to use the toll infrastructure for Weigh-in-Motion of freight trucks (WIM) and to extend the functionality of the toll system or its control activity to it.

• Enforcement gantries are to be used as weighing points on motorway and road networks, a further control infrastructure including CMV and mobile patrols of customs administration /alt. police, then serves to synergically detect an offence, detect the offender and deliver the validated information to state authorities for remedy and punishment.

• The dynamic weighing in the toll system in the first stage should take place on highways and motorways close to border crossings so this will focus on the control of transit traffic entering state territory.

Legal and Legislative Framework of WIM.

• In 2012 the Czech Republic adopted an amendment to Act No. 13/1997 Coll. on Roads as amended - one of the first in the world to take a decisive legislative step for direct recourse of operators of overloaded vehicles based on the application of high-speed weighing technology.

• When adhering to the relevant certification, next time it will not be necessary to weigh a vehicle on mobile scales, the vehicle will only be subject to Weigh-in Motion.

• Currently an amendment is being drawn up of the Technical Decree as a subordinate law which implements the details of the Act:

• a detailed method must be determined of the implementation of high-speed weighing and also grant persons providing WIM, legal authorisation for access to the central vehicle register for the purpose of identifying the operator according to vehicle registration number plates so that this person can, without any legal obstacles, identify the operator of the relevant vehicle based on the information obtained from the road vehicle register, or the request for determining the vehicle operator completely delete from the weighing ticket (it would only contain the identification of the registration number plate), while the vehicle operator would be identified in the subsequent administrative proceedings held by the municipality with extended jurisdiction which by law has constant access to the central vehicle register.

Legal and Legislative Framework of WIM.

Weigh-in-Motion - integration with the toll.

• Motorways and high-speed roads

• control of (foreign) transit traffic on entry into the territory of the Czech Republic

• control of vehicles on main routes with destinations in the Czech Republic

• protection of bigger cities

• Economically effective solution = technological integration

• use of the existing infrastructure

• gates, feed, communication network

• enforcement – cameras, scanners

• Economically effective solution = process and operating integration

• uniform data processing with toll system data

• using already set and tested processes

• expansion of the control activity of Customs Administration vehicles

• expansion of the manual validation centre capacities

Weigh-in-Motion – choice of standpoints.

• Meeting the requirements for geometric and surface properties (motorways, high-speed roads, class 1 roads)

• Installation of toll gates with enforcement control technology

• Categorisation according to type of bearing

• Border

• Transit

• Ring-road (around cities)

• Local importance

• Special (e.g. area of regular transport of heavy bulk materials)

Weigh-in-Motion in ETC.

The example of the function of WIM in the toll system at the control gate (enforcement gantry):

Trigger scanner

Loop

Driving direction

Hard shoulder

Line 1

Line 2

WIM Lineas Kistler ® sensor Road side cabinet

with electronics

Example Highway Tolling –trigger scanner option.

Example Highway Tolling –trigger scanner option.

Driving direction

Loop

Trigger scanner

Hard shoulder

Line 1

Line 2

WIM Lineas Kistler ® sensor

Road side cabinet

with electronics

Example Highway Tolling –automatic number plate recognition option.

Trigger scanner

Loop

Driving direction

Hard shoulder

Line 1

Line 2

Optional:

ANPR camera

WIM Lineas Kistler ® sensor

Road side cabinet

with electronics

Driving direction

Loop

Trigger scanner

Hard shoulder

Line 1

Line 2

Optional:

ANPR camera

WIM Lineas Kistler ® sensor

Road side cabinet

with electronics

Example Highway Tolling –automatic number plate recognition option.

Weigh-in-Motion in processing.

• Functioning of WIM as a part of existing electronic toll

system (diagram below):

toll incident verification

overload incident verification

penalty for toll/overloadedviolator

Enforcementtoll gantry

Enforcementtoll gantrywih WIM

Mobile vehicles of

customsor police

ManualValidationCentrum

Administrative bodies and

courts

Weigh-in-Motion.

• Currently the Minister of Transport has decided to renew the pilot testing of WIM, so that the system is ready for the introduction in the nearest possible term:

Pilot project Weigh-in-Motion.

• Pilot project started in September 2012, with desired outputs:• Verification of technical functionality in terms of accuracy, stability and robustness of HS WIM

station

• Design of the best applicable way of integration into tolling system

• Correlation of data from toll enforcement and WIM station,

• Collection of statistical data and its utilization in business case calculation

• Identification of prospective obstacles making full commercial operation difficult ( found in

legislation mainly)

• All interim reports were shared with RSD and MoT.

• All results were positive, we have outlined two phases for the future operation:

• Pre-selection of the overloaded trucks by WIM and following static weighing by Police

or Customs

• Fully automated weighing in process integration with tolling system ( after minor

legislation adoption)

• Ministry of transport is considering for the first Phase deployment of 10 HS WIM

stations, focused primarily on transit and across-border heavy transport.

Pilot project Weigh-in-Motion.

• Pilot project WIM – results in detail:

• strictly set rules that the results have stood the statutory reviews of results adjusted for biased given by improper driving of truck (maneuvering, braking, keeping away etc.)

• measured deviation in accuracy when weighing axles Ø 5%

• measured deviation in accuracy when weighing the entire vehicle by 1.2%

• the rate of detection of overloaded vehicles is around 4%

• Economic benefits of WIM for the government:

• Direct payments – The benefits of the system during the first stage of its operation for central and local government authorities mainly consist of direct payments of fines levied on the operators of overweight vehicles and fees collected for the weighing of overweight vehicles.

Revenues amount to approximately 21 million crowns per month

• Indirect cost savings – When the system has been operated for some time, carriers will to a much greater extent observe the maximum allowed vehicle load. From then on, the bulk of operating revenues will consist of indirect savings achieved by reduced road repair and reconstruction costs.

Savings of approximately 8% of the necessary increase in road repair and maintenance costs

The maintenance cycle will be extended from five to seven years

Weigh-in-Motion pilot results.

• For eight months was weighted 435.346 vehicles over 3,5t:

• overloaded was 6895 vehicles (1.58%) in total and axially

• wholly measurement was at 70% of vehicles (missing sensors in the parking lane, one lane highway in one direction)

• wholly measurement was at 90% of vehicles

(with sensors in double row configuration)

• Economic Benefits:

• Direct impacts - fines for overloaded vehicles (in that one measuring point was for the eight months collected 902,000 EUR + charge for the car weighting) = conservative return on investment is 2-3 months.

• Indirect impacts – more of the hauliers begin to follow proper load of vehicles, less investment is needed for the repair and reconstruction of the surface.

= Long-term savings of hundreds of millions CZK

STOP to carousel fraud!WIM will allow the authorities of the

state control through constant weighing of trucks better detect the

growing problem of so called carousel frauds of some carriers.

Thank you for your attention.

Ing. Karel Feix, CEOKapsch Czech Republic

Kapsch Telematic Services, s.r.o.Ke Štvanici 656/3 | 186 00 Praha 8 | Česká republikaTel.: +420 225 026 101 | E-mail: karel.feix@kapsch.net | www.kapsch.cz