Demonstration of a Mobile Application of CVO Weight Enforcement Screening (TTI/ITS RCE-99/03)

This research explored the innovative use of Intelligent Transportation System technologies to enhance the capabilities of police vehicles and enforcement personnel in identifying and apprehending commercial vehicles that violate size and weight or other laws. The research complemented ongoing research involving other applications of smart police vehicles to improve a wide variety of enforcement activities. This research developed a prototype system using weigh-in-motion (WIM) equipment and video capture techniques to monitor commercial vehicle weights at a site in College Station, Texas. It demonstrated that weight enforcement screening can be done in a mobile environment as opposed to the typical fixed site application. The concept allows a roving or stationary license and weight enforcement trooper to monitor WIM equipment remotely by wireless transmission of WIM output along with information to identify the vehicle downstream. This demonstration project utilized video image capture for the subsequent identification and Cellular Digital Packet Data modems for image transfer.