Static vehicular characteristics
1. length of the vehicle
This affects the followings :
- Road capacity
- Parking facilities
- Design of horizontal alignment of road
- Overtaking distance
2. Width of the vehicle
This affects the followings :
- Width of shoulders
- Speed of vehicles
- Lane width
- Capacity of road
- Width of parking lots
3. Height of the vehicle
This affects the followings :
- Height of tunnels
- Clearance required under structures such as under bridges, over bridge, electric service line.
- Height of driver seat affects the visibility distance
4. Weight of vehicle
This affects the followings :
- Design of bridges
- Ruling and limiting gradients
- Structural design of pavement, its thickness
