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Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) systems can improve the capacity of weigh-station operations by screening trucks traveling at high speeds and requiring only trucks within a threshold of a maximum permissible weight or axle load to be weighed on more accurate static scales. The efficiency of a weigh station is highly dependent on the accuracy of the WIM screening system. This article examines the operations at the Stephens City weigh station in Virginia. The case study evaluates the accuracy of the WIM technology, in addition to the operations of the weigh station, in terms of service time (time that the truck is on static scale), queued delay, and system time. Specifically, the study demonstrated that the WIM systems did not conform to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards for Type III WIM systems. The study also demonstrated that by incorporating a weight threshold of 96% only 16% of the trucks that were identified as possible violators actually violated the legal limits. Consequently, 84% of the trucks that were required to enter the static scale were forced to incur unnecessary delays and caused additional delays for violating and nonviolating trucks.
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center, the ITS Implementation Center, and the Center for Innovative Technologies. Furthermore, the authors acknowledge the support of the Virginia DMV in collecting the weigh-station data. The authors also acknowledge the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the article and Paul Ruggiero for editing the article.