Abstract
The article concerns on a methodological approach to design Rest and Service Areas. Because there is recorded steady growth in food cargo that require specific temperatures its resulting in an increase in demand for specialized transport. Transportation of food is usually done using vehicles equipped with refrigeration or heating. The article presents the design requirements for Rest and Service Areas (RSA), which is one of the most important elements of the road network, that condition affects the safety of drivers and cargo. Based on growth assumptions of effectiveness a functional model of RSA consisting five data bases and nine research tasks has been proposed. As a primary parameter studied in the model was the RSA effectiveness assessed by the rate of parking spaces utilization. The values of this index were estimated according to the share of traffic cars leave the motorway to the traffic flow of cars on the motorway. Evaluation of test results was based on the indicative comparative analysis of the existing and forecasted traffic flows of trucks with loads sensitive to the conditions and the time of their carriage. In the article pointed out that decisions taken in the course of modernization of the national RSA network should be reviewed and assessed through simulation studies of the transport process taking into account different boundary conditions, a risk analysis of transport depending on the type of transported cargo and analyze the efficiency and profitability of the national network creation of parking places adapted to specialized service of trucks carrying food cargo.
Highlights
According to GUS data, the national truck rolling stock at the beginning of 2015 consisted of over 3 million vehicles
Total length of the public road network in Poland is over 415 thousand km, of which approx. 3 thousand km are expressways and highways
Condition of polish road infrastructure depends on the construction of new motorways and expressways, and from the launch of new Rest and Service Areas (RSA), which constitutes one of the most important elements of the road network because their condition affects the safety of drivers and cargo transported
Summary
According to GUS data, the national truck rolling stock at the beginning of 2015 consisted of over 3 million vehicles. The purposes of such an area are to provide a safe place for passengers and drivers to rest and to meet them and their vehicles with basic necessities. There were not included, among others, needs arising during performing specialized carriages ie.: transport of dangerous goods, oversized cargo or cargo requiring controlled temperature. They take up year over year growing segment of the transport market, which makes it necessary to adapt RSA to new needs. Using a design shipping route from the bottom up “based on the fragmentation of transport tasks”; Lack of RSAs equipped with devices to specialized service vehicles loaded cargo sensitive to conditions and transport
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