Garbage Trucks Research Articles

Automated Layout Design of Stiffened Container Structures Based on the Morphology of Plant Ramifications

This study proposes a new topology optimization solution providing designers with choices for feasible stiffener layouts inside large-scale containers of garbage trucks. Firstly, the mathematical expressions of loading conditions inside garbage containers are derived. Then, a growth-based layout optimization framework is built, taking inspiration from the morphology of plant ramifications. The principles of the highly effective but individual design rules of existent leaf venation layout problems are explored and transferred into analytical laws. Based on this, an evolutionary algorithm is developed to simulate the load-adapted growth of stiffener layouts, which provides an approximately homogeneous stress distribution along the surface of self-optimizing structures. Unlike the conventional methods, the new approach needs neither the densest ground structure nor the modification of the existing finite element programs, it is fast, easy to apply and nearly constraint free. Finally, a case study is provided showing how a large-scale container structure can be designed by this extremely intelligent CAD approach.

Real-world activity, fuel use, and emissions of diesel side-loader refuse trucks

Abstract Diesel refuse trucks have the worst fuel economy of onroad highway vehicles. The real-world effectiveness of recently introduced emission controls during low speed and low engine load driving has not been verified for these vehicles. A portable emission measurement system (PEMS) was used to measure rates of fuel use and emissions on six side-loader refuse trucks. The objectives were to: (1) characterize activity, fuel use, and emissions; (2) evaluate variability between cycles and trucks; and (3) compare results with the MOVES emission factor model. Quality assured data cover 210,000 s and 550 miles of operation during which the trucks collected 4200 cans and 50 tons of waste material. The average fuel economy was 2.6 mpg. Trash collection contributed 70%–80% of total fuel use and emissions. The daily activity Operating Mode (OpMode) distribution and cycle average fuel use and emissions is different from previously used cycles such as Central Business District (CBD), New York Garbage Truck (NYGT), and William H. Martin (WHM). NOx emission rates for trucks with selective catalytic reduction were over 90% lower than those for trucks without. Similarly, trucks with diesel particulate filters had over 90% lower particulate matter (PM) emissions than trucks without. Compared to unloaded trucks, loaded truck averaged 18% lower fuel economy while NOx and PM emissions were higher by 65% and 16%, respectively. MOVES predicted values are highly correlated to empirical data; however, MOVES estimates are 37% lower for NOx and 300% higher for PM emission rates. The data presented here can be used to develop more representative cycles and improve emission factors for side-loader refuse trucks, which in turn can improve the accuracy of refuse truck emission inventories.

A Survey on Household Solid Waste Management (SWM) with Special Reference to a Peri-urban Area (Kottawa) in Colombo

A properly managed effective waste management programme increases the health and environmental quality of the country .This survey examines the status of Solid Waste Management household level in a peri-urban area (Kottawa in Colombo) in relation to the willingness of the people for the participation of an upgraded programme and the level of awareness of the people about the environmental and health hazards associated with disorganized management of solid waste. A pretested and self-administered questionnaire was used for primary data collection covering 50 households which were selected randomly. Data were analysed according to the descriptive statistics. The common waste types include food, paper, plastic, metal, glass and batteries. The rate of waste generation from more than 70% of the households exceeds 2kg per day. 94% of the total waste collection was from the kitchen. Nearly 50% uses waste pits in their home gardens. Other methods of kitchen waste disposal were garbage truck collection (44%), burning (44%), composting (16%) and incineration (10%).66% of the households practice burning to dispose papers and cardboard. Disposal of non biodegradable waste such as glass, plastic, batteries and metal were done through a separate garbage truck. Waste separation at household level was practiced by 52% while 42% do not practice it. Compost bins were popular among 30% of the households. However, compost bins were unknown to 6%. Active participation for home composting was observed among 26%. Awareness about the environmental hazards caused by improper waste management was 100%. Only 2% of the respondents did not have much concern about the health impact of improper waste management. 54% of the household was unsatisfied with the prevailing waste management practices and 70% of them expect more involvement by the government to correct the problem. The results also showed that 26% of the households were not aware of waste recycling, reuse & reduction. However, 96% of the respondents agreed to co-operate & to participate for a proper waste management programme. Suggestions produced by the respondents to implement an effective waste management programme include composting (34%), efficient waste separation (14%), establishment of government owned waste collecting canters (28%), and provision of standard waste bins for household use under a subsidized programme and standard garbage trucks with a unique honking facility 12%.

Multi-cavity Piston에 의한 바이오디젤유의 연소성 향상에 관한 연구

American NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) reported that BD20 could reduce PM, CO, SOx and cancerogenic matters by 13.6%, 9.3%, 17.6% and 13% respectively, compared to diesel fuel. BD20 has been being tested on garbage trucks and official vehicles at Seoul City, which is positive on air environment, but negative on combustion by higher viscosity in winter season. This study investigated the combustion characteristics by employing multi cavity piston for improving the deterioration of combustibility caused by the higher viscosity of the biodiesel fuel such as BD20 with the combustion flames taken by a high speed camera and the cylinder pressure diagram. A 4-cycle single cylinder diesel engine was remodeled to a visible 2-cycle engine for taking the flame photographs, which has a common-rail injection system. The test was done at laboratory temperature of about .

Outer Boroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan by William Meyers (review)

Reviewed by: Outer Boroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan by William Meyers Nola Tully (bio) William Meyers, Outer Boroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan (Damiani, 2015), 192 pp. Nearly two centuries after Joseph Niépce first obtained a faithful image of nature, photography still captivates us with its ability to abstract something as elusive as 1/125 of a second and hold it fixed, suspended, resonant of events past, people or places no longer existent, perhaps no longer traceable but for this record, this proof that something, this thing, the subject of this photograph did happen, this person lived here, this place was visited, it looked like this. In Outer Boroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan, published this spring by Damiani Press, photographer William Meyers takes us beyond the iconic images of NYC street photography, to a time and place where life keeps beat to a slower tempo. Meyers delivers [End Page 605] vestiges of another NYC, one that is often eclipsed by its more famous and faster-paced sibling, as he captures life in the boroughs beyond Manhattan. The work imparts a calm temperament of quiet observation—landscapes as states of mind. The book opens with the epigraph The eye never has enough of seeing. (Ecclesiastes 1:8), and insatiability resonates palpably in these spare, dark, and often grainy cityscapes. A pair of colorful essays bookends the 83 black and white photographs, and horizontal pictures fill the right hand pages with their succinct titles printed on the left. In the first essay, “Outer Boroughs,” architectural historian Francis Morrone briefly traces how Manhattan came to rule, highlighting how each borough was at differing times a jewel in the city’s rich fabric. His anecdotes heighten the irony of some photographs, and provide an upbeat backdrop to others. In the closing essay, “A Wanderer in the Boroughs,” Vicky Goldberg champions the artist’s eye and a sort of metaphorical ambidexterity which she finds in Meyers’s work. She is unwavering in articulating his adept tonal range, style, and vision. Her title is fitting as the photographs were taken during two decades wandering through the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Mr. Meyers, a native New Yorker, has said that his aim was not as concerned with taking a picture as with “letting the picture take him.” The book’s format recalls Danny Lyon’s Other Places or Bruce Davidson’s Subway and both of these photographers come to mind. Meyers disclaims the documentary mantle yet acknowledges the influence of such diverse masters as Walker Evans and Weegee, Garry Winogrand and Helen Levitt. Stylistically his photographs resonate with the grittiness of William Klein’s grainy, blurred, and distorted street scenes yet the differences are striking. There are fewer people and no hysteria. The absence of people is noticeable. We are beckoned in with a perspective of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway from below. A massive span of concrete and ironworks bisects the page, carries us out of Manhattan into the outer boroughs, each named on the Exit 17 signpost above. A lone garbage truck traverses the expressway like a toy engine belching a trail of smoke into the wide-open sky above Sunnyside Queens, June 7, 2000. In Belmont, Bronx, December 5, 1990, rows of fresh-baked peasant bread dappled in sunlight feel a bit simple, and in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, September 3, 2000, a bushy rhododendron, unkempt yet majestically framed by elegant stonework, feels a bit staged, yet there is beauty in the simplicity. It is hard to say what exactly is so pleasing about Riverdale, Bronx, May 4, 1998, other than to admire the flowers and foliage that flank the symmetry of the twin stucco, terraced homes on the Hudson River, until one sees the old woman on the right-hand balcony. This human presence quietly tips this otherwise architectural composition into the realm of the metaphysical. The empty streets of Castle Hill Bronx, March 7, 1999 suggest no amenities and stand in direct contrast to any notion of the Bronx as “bucolic.” In his essay, Francis Morrone describes this borough at the turn of the [End Page 606] century as a “land of milk and honey” and a place of the future. Yet...

Mapping Deeply

This is a description of an avant la lettre deep mapping project carried out by a geographer and a number of landscape architecture students in the early 1980s. Although humanists seem to take the “mapping” in deep mapping more metaphorically than cartographically, in this neighborhood mapping project, the mapmaking was taken literally, with the goal of producing an atlas of the neighborhood. In this, the neighborhood was construed as a transformer, turning the stuff of the world (gas, water, electricity) into the stuff of individual lives (sidewalk graffiti, wind chimes, barking dogs), and vice versa. Maps in the central transformer section of the atlas were to have charted this process in action, as in one showing the route of an individual newspaper into the neighborhood, then through the neighborhood to a home, and finally, as trash, out of the neighborhood in a garbage truck; though few of these had been completed when the project concluded in 1986. Resurrected in 1998 in an episode on Ira Glass’ This American Life, the atlas was finally published, as Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, in 2010 (and an expanded edition in 2013).

On relations of the consciousness of garbage truck drivers and their experiences of unsafe driving behaviors

On relations of the consciousness of garbage truck drivers and their experiences of unsafe driving behaviors

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The main sources of space debris in space orbit, ways and means to minimize the near-Earth space pollution. It is shown that the main ways to combat space Muso-set is to prevent the emergence of a new and deleting already-established th. Define methods and means of O spacecraft from working orbits of the expiration of the term of active existence, the known methods and B tem of active removal of space debris larger. As wasps basic principles remove large objects from near-Earth space, is considered to manage their erection in the dense layers of the at-mosphere through the use of a special spacecraft - cosmic-ray clean sweep, which includes the propulsion system. You are a full assessment of the capabilities of carrier rockets, which can be applied to us, the withdrawal of these garbage trucks into the desired orbit.

Long road to autonomy

Daimler has just unveiled a self-driving truck--the first to be approved for use on US roads. For the freight industry, the Inspiration Truck holds the promise of a future with fewer accidents, lower fuel costs and well-rested drivers. The inspiration is different, designed to travel on the highway alongside ordinary cars and trucks. Its clearance to drive on Nevada's highways could be big news for the trucking industry, which struggles to find drivers to do the exhausting work. If it succeeds, other big self-driving vehicles could follow, such as garbage trucks or city buses.

An analytical geoinformation system for operational planning of the traffic routes of garbage trucks

The article considers an effective approach to solve the problem of operational planning and monitoring of the traffic routes of garbage collectors in settlements on the basis of an analytical geoinformation system. The system structure is presented as three interrelated subsystems: geoinformation, analysis, and monitoring. We have suggested a mathematical formulation of the problem of effective planning of the traffic routes of garbage collectors and an efficient algorithm of solving it. The planned routes are controlled by the subsystem of monitoring vehicles that uses GPS-navigation. Implementation of the analytical geoinformation system for effective planning of the traffic routes of garbage trucks is an efficient means to improve environmental security as well as housing and utility energy and resource economy. Practical implementation of the devised plan of detailed routes for the removal of municipal solid waste allows reduction of the required number of garbage trucks (from three to two), cutting the total length of their routes, and decreasing by 35 % the actual fuel costs for the planned period of one month.

Managing Marine Plastic Pollution: Policy Initiatives to Address Wayward Waste

A few times a year, volunteers fan out along the causeway that links the South Carolina mainland with the seashore community of Folly Beach to clean up plastic bottles, straws, bags, and other debris from along the road and the salt marsh. Some of this debris has come from cities miles away. On windy days, litter is often blown off city streets into waterways. During rainstorms, debris floats into drains that empty into rivers. Other trash probably came from places closer to home. “I see bags and other plastic flying off the beds of pickup trucks going down the causeway,” says Marty Morganello, who organizes the cleanups for the Charleston-area chapter of the nonprofit Surfrider Foundation. “I see them coming out the open windows of cars and out the backs of garbage trucks and even recycling trucks. This material is lightweight, and if you don’t secure it, it will fly away.” By one estimate, the volume of plastic debris going into the world’s oceans could more than double by 2025, assuming current trends in coastal development and plastics use. Some countries have begun identifying ways to improve management of plastic ... Beach cleanups yield enormous amounts of trash, with plastic items a major constituent.1 Although the human health impacts of this marine plastic pollution remain poorly characterized, it is widely seen as an emerging problem that deserves much more research attention.2 Likewise, there is a growing urgency among industry, government, nongovernmental organizations, and environmental groups to develop tools and policies to track, capture, and recycle plastic waste before it reaches the ocean.

Calculation and Choice of Grip Parameters for Garbage Truck Manipulator

Around the world the issue related to municipal solid waste (MSW) management ranks second in urban economy system. For the most part the actual researches deal with the improvement of MSW recycling, neutralization, utilization and burying processes. The garbage trucks are initial unit in a processing chain of MSW utilization. As to the garbage trucks operation management issues the researches are carried out on the enhancement of designs, maintenance and repair system, models and methods of work route schedules development. The free oscillations of the vehicle frame are not taken into account in the fundamentals of garbage trucks engineering design.As part of the fulfilled research the process modeling of side mechanized loading of solid waste in the garbage truck body, taking into account the vehicle frame free oscillations, is carried out. As result the constructive and connecting sizes of a new grip design to ensure minimum stresses and moments generation in «grip-container-grip» system are determined.

“Listen to the Leaves”: Derek Mahon's Evolving Ecologies

“Listen to the Leaves”:Derek Mahon’s Evolving Ecologies Eóin Flannery (bio) I “New York Time,” previously “The Hudson Letter” (1996), opens in “Winter,” and the poetic speaker is awoken amid snow and ice in New York City to the combined but competing strains of “the first bird and the first garbage truck.”1 These “garbage trucks,” which will later discharge their discarded cargoes onto the “refuse barges” (NCP, 167) of the fourth section, “Waterfront,” of the sequence, are twinned with the early-morning avian chorus outside the beleaguered speaker’s apartment window. The discordant sonority of the metropolis’s daybreak exposes the tonal ambiguity of the longer poetic sequence at the same time as it addresses, in cursory fashion, the dynamics of the human and nonhuman ecological crisis. Derek Mahon initiates his sequence, and this day, with an incongruous but all too frequent urban duet, which aggregates the natural and the fabricated, and the sentient and the inanimate, all of which are “a measure of his response to the crisis of industrial (or postindustrial) modernity, with useless rubbish, garbage, or waste functioning as a secular memento mori of the empire of the transient that is consumer culture.”2 In a concise ironic gesture, Mahon disallows the muse-like possibilities of the unseen birdsong by using the mechanical, utilitarian functions of the disposal vehicle. Not only does this reference, among many others across “New York Time,” partake of a preoccupation with waste, but it neatly holds in one line a matter of urgency within contemporary environmentalist criticism: the uneven, competing claims of the environment and of global capital. “New York Time,” then, abounds with the junked residues, the neon skylines, the clamorous streetscapes, and the informational gluttony of postmodernity: “News-time / in the global village—Ethiopian drought, / famine, [End Page 377] whole nations, races, evicted even yet . . . / the images forming which will be screened tonight / on CNN and The McNeil-Lehrer News Hour” (NCP, 165). All of these are symptoms of industrialism and indiscriminate urbanization that both repel and fascinate Mahon’s humanism and his aestheticism. This city is portrayed in terms of modern life as excess, as waste, as consisting of the leftovers of Western humanity’s appetites, yet poetic art is molded from its raw, remaindered materials. Mahon is both observer and participant in this historical pageant of consumerism but is chiefly concerned with tracking the velocity of ruination and dereliction in such a cultural economy. From an ecocritical perspective, then, hubristic modernity is worryingly devoid of a responsible historical consciousness; its forms and contents, conceived as unaging or ever-replaceable monuments of triumphant capital, are exposed as transient objects on a conveyor of junked consumables. The catholicity of Mahon’s cultural approach has, as we have already alluded to, always been an acknowledged facet of his work and, it seems, informs his broad ecological vision. And Hugh Haughton encapsulates the chafing dynamics of locality and internationalism, with reference to Mahon’s eco-conscientiousness, that condition his longer-term writing career: If he started out as a poet in resistance to his home place, he went on to become a uniquely compelling poet of other places without abandoning the notion of poetry as a form of resistance. . . . Though in love with the aesthetic, and gifted with an ear for intellectual cantabile, there is always an edge of political anger, and cultural critique in his work, born of a sense of damage that has become increasingly ecological.3 Haughton is unafraid to impress the political edges of Mahon’s poetry, which is a step that is not always taken in critical readings of his work. Yet, the ecological sensibility of his oeuvre, though expressed in different ways and with different landscapes and objects to the fore at various stages, cannot be figured in any other way than in political terms. Equally, Haughton’s suggestion that Mahon’s poetic, and biographical, peregrinations have taken Mahon beyond the bounds of Belfast and Ireland to international and cosmopolitan geographies, without blunting this political strain within his work, is crucial to appreciating the gravity of his assumption of ecological advocacy in his later work.4 Though, as we have said, and as...

Kinematics and Force Analysis of Lifting Mechanism of Detachable Container Garbage Truck

The kinematics and force analysis of the lifting mechanism of the detachable container garbage truck is performed in this article. First of all, the structural features and working mechanism of detachable container garbage truck are introduced. Then, for each working condition of the DCG truck, kinematic models are established, and the force analysis of the lifting mechanism is performed. Finally, the movement of a 20 ton DCG truck is calculated and analyzed as an example. This study provides a theoretical basis for the optimized design of DCGgarbage truck.

Resource and cost efficient selective collection

The EU has accepted the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) in 2008 setting a 50% recycling target for paper, plastic, glass and metal waste by 2020 and prescribing the obligatory initiation of selective collection by 2015 [1]. These targets are also embedded in the 3rd National Environmental Program of Hungary [2] and the new Waste Management Act proposal. This research is focused on identifying the factors influencing the efficiency of complex selective collection systems. The initiation of a selective collection system results in an increase in recyclables and a decrease in the amount of residual waste. The cost of complex collection system is mainly determined by time of collection and the length of the route of the garbage truck.

Bioseguridad en el manejo y eliminación de residuos en los centros de atención odontológica del Cono Norte de Lima Metropolitana 2005

El objetivo del estudio descriptivo y transversal fue determinar si los residuos sólidos producidos en los consultorios privados de atención odontológica son tratados y eliminados adecuadamente. La población estuvo constituida por todos los consultorios privados que brindan atención odontológica, en el Cono Norte de Lima Metropolitana conformada por los siguientes distritos: Los Olivos, Comas, Independencia, Rímac, San Martín de Porres, Carabayllo y Puente Piedra, según padrón de inscritos en el Colegio Odontológico de Lima, teniendo en cuenta el área geográfica de distribución de las zonas según criterio del INEI y la Resolución Ministerial de la Norma Técnica: “Procedimientos para el Manejo de Residuos Sólidos Hospitalarios” (R.M.N°217-2004/MINSA), se visitó a los cirujanos dentistas que laboraron en los respectivos consultorios en los meses de febrero, marzo y abril del 2005 en un total de 153. Se aplicó un Registro de Ficha para Entrevista y Observación. Se realizó la entrevista al personal que laboró en el consultorio, se observó si las Normas de Bioseguridad y Eliminación de los Residuos Sólidos fueron cumplidas adecuadamente por el personal del consultorio. Se observó si el traslado y la disposición final de los residuos sólidos cumplen con las normas establecidas. Las variables de estudio fueron: sexo, tiempo de ejercicio profesional, utilización de elementos de bioseguridad: uso de guantes y mascarilla por el operador y el asistente, colocación de campo al paciente. Para la eliminación de residuos: empleo de bolsas en los tachos, utilizaron recipientes especiales para material punzocortantes y uso de bolsas rojas para residuos biocontaminados. El tipo de transporte que utilizaron para eliminación de residuos del consultorio: camiones recolectores o los informales y si los recolectores seleccionaron o juntaron los residuos de consultorio. Disposición Final: relleno sanitario o botaderos abiertos. El estudio determinó que solo el 20,3 % utilizó recipientes para materiales punzocortantes, no se encontraron bolsas de color rojo en los tachos para materiales biocontaminados, el 13,7 % de residuos sólidos fueron a parar a botaderos abiertos, en conclusión la disposición final de residuos sólidos no cumplen con Normas Técnicas establecidas, y los consultorios no tratan ni eliminan adecuadamente sus residuos producto de atención odontológica.

Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? by B. Sayers

Sayres, Brianna K. Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? Illus. Christian Slade. New York: Random House, 2012. Print.If the title Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? seems a tad familiar, well, it probably is. In the same vein as the ultra-popular Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site, Diggers presents the sweet nighttime rituals of diggers, trucks and other heavy machinery. At first I thought this was a simple effort to take advantage of a similar, bestselling title however Sayres’ work does indeed hold its own.In this picture book aimed at ages 3-6, first time picture book author Sayres gives young heavy equipment aficionados a delightful take on the bedtime story. In rhyming couplets and often in a humorous manner, all sorts of trucks, cranes and tractors get ready for rest under the watchful headlamps of their caregivers: “Where do garbage trucks sleep / when they’re done collecting trash? / Do their dads sniff their load and say, / ‘Pee-yew—time to take a bath’?” Sure to get the young ones giggling.The sleepy-eyed dozers and tow trucks eventually give way to an equally sleepy young boy in his cozy bed, with a reminder that the trucks will be waiting for him when he wakes. Save for one naughty truck, winking, under the bed (my five-year-old happily pointed this out).Though the illustrations by former Disney animator Christian Slade are rather cartoon-like and not realistic, they match the text well, are in soothing nighttime colours and allow for the trucks to have droopy eyes and smiling faces. Read in a lyrical fashion, or even as a song, this would be a nice end to any wee truck lover’s day. This would make a nice addition to any public library or as a gift.Reviewer: Debbie Feisst Recommended: 3 stars out of 4Debbie is a Public Services Librarian at the H.T. Coutts Education Library at the University of Alberta. When not renovating, she enjoys travel, fitness and young adult fiction.

Replacing the ICE by electric motor of the Iveco 150E eurocargo hard-press garbage truck

Replacing the ICE by electric motor of the Iveco 150E eurocargo hard-press garbage truck

Drive Cycle Prediction and Energy Management Optimization for Hybrid Hydraulic Vehicles

Increasing costs of fossil fuels and the requirement of reduced <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">$ \hbox{CO}_{2}$</tex></formula> emissions for road vehicles make the development of alternative propulsion systems a top priority in automotive research. Hybrid hydraulic vehicles (HHVs) can contribute to improving the fuel efficiency of heavy vehicles such as garbage trucks and city buses. The combination of a conventional diesel engine with an additional hydraulic powertrain allows for regenerative braking. Further improvements with regard to fuel efficiency become possible through additional optimization of the energy management strategy, which decides when to apply which propulsion system. Rule-based strategies are the state of the art, but they cannot utilize the full potential because their performance is only superior on the cycles for which they have been developed. Approaches including numerical optimization are independent from the actual drive cycle and result in much higher savings. However, these techniques usually require a prediction of the driving profile. In this paper, a complete solution for predictive energy management in HHVs is presented. The fuel savings obtained through the developed algorithms used for prediction and optimization are determined in a simulation study, and the functionality of the concept is proven in a hybrid hydraulic testing vehicle.

Pavement performance mechanics of interlocking concrete paver crosswalk designs

This paper summarizes a research study that involved a partnership between Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology located at University of Waterloo and Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute. This research study involved the construction of eight crosswalks with different base and bedding materials at two test sites and was directed at defining the performance mechanics for designs with various bases and setting beds. The objective was to quantify the structural performance of four different interlocking concrete pavement designs under two loading scenarios. The Test Track typically experienced loaded garbage trucks up to 56 000 kg of maximum load. The Ring Road experienced traffic volume of a typical urban road. This research evaluated eight crosswalks of four different designs in these two locations. Sand set concrete base concrete header was one of the designs. Similarly, the combination of asphalt base, granular base, steel header, aluminum header, and concrete header were other designs of the crosswalks studied. Strain gauges, moisture probes, earth pressure cells, and thermistors were installed in the crosswalks to continuously monitor the structural and environmental impact from various loading conditions. Continued surveys were all performed as part of the research. Maximum recommended lifetime design equivalent single axle loads (ESALs) for bituminous set concrete base concrete header design was 7.5 million ESALs and sand set asphalt base asphalt header was recommended to have 1.5 million design ESALs. This paper presents the performance mechanics of the crosswalks from construction (2007–2009) to May 2010.