Best Practices for Commercial Vehicle Monitoring Facilities Design

The great technological advances that were made over the last decade in monitoring traffic and the increased emphasis on highway safety for truck traffic have prompted a need to determine more effective ways to monitor and inspect truck traffic. Commercial Vehicle Monitoring (CVM) facilities provide the highway community with the means of supervising truck traffic. However, in an era with limited funds and space for roadway expansion. some consideration must be given to the types of facilities needed and the most efficient way to spend the available funds. Hence, a research study was initiated to determine the successful practices for designing a new CVM facility or retrofitting or upgrading an existing facility; the findings are presented here. A questionnaire was distributed to all 50 states to identify the state of the nation with respect to the newly constructed and lately upgraded CVM facilities. This report focuses on the presentation of issues that need to be considered and addressed when designing or upgrading a CVM facility and provides a checklist of critical factors, considerations for facility components, and typical facility layouts

An Innovative of Simul Model for Ready-Mix Concretes in The Concept of Third Party Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Malaysia and Thailand

The research discusses on issues in an order fulfilment for sustainable ready-mix concrete as desired for an eco-friendly choice of integration in the concept of third-party logistics and supply chain management. There are insufficient and inappropriate means in concrete industry which has contributed to un-environmentally friendly especially in Malaysia and Thailand. The supply management and logistics are the factors in designing of product which influence on the environmental, safety and health. It also involves on costs of energy, effectiveness, economic certainty, businesses and other related issues. Through the current practices with relevant factors, the analysis of model is no longer realistic. The sustainable of simulation in logistics model should relate to descriptive approaches. Through the less numbers of movements and reduction on carbon dioxide are significant for the simulation. In some developing countries, the involvements of commercial players and government bodies have their responsibility in controlling, simulating economic and business development. Relation to this fundamental deficiency, this paper utilized SIMUL model in the logistics for sustainable ready mixed concrete, eco-friendly and to meet on the order fulfilments. The result clearly indicates that the eco-friendly SIMUL model can be more sustainable, cost efficient and time effective in fulfilling orders for the operational of ready-mix concrete in future