The effective evaluation of truck safety for an alternative parallel South Africans PBS legislation
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2013-08-28
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Sharma, Shikar
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The National Transport Commission have shown that implementation of Performance Based
Standards (PBS) improves companies’ productivities by minimizing the transportation costs.
This in turn has a positive effect on the South African economy. The development of PBS in
Australia was identified and developed in South Africa. Computational modelling plays an
important role in evaluating a truck’s performance and dynamics for PBS adherence. This is
because computational modelling can be done quicker, safer, and cheaper than conducting
physical evaluation tests. In order to effectively evaluate vehicle performance, it is necessary
to use an effective software package. The following software packages were analysed in this
study: ADAMS/View 2011, TruckSim 8.0, and Yaw/Roll. Although the National Transport
Commission has found accurate agreement of results by software comparison, this research
looks at the ease-of-use (user effort required), cost, output agreement and features (e.g. driver
models, tyre models, integrators, etc.) of the different software. This will assist other vehicle
dynamicists wanting to evaluate PBS designs.