Heavy-Duty On-Road Vehicle Use Survey for the Atlanta Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Equipment Inventory and Emissions Study

Sponsored by:

The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Georgia Department of Transportation

Conducted by:


   

Please fill out the following survey (3-page questionnaire plus 1-page table) for all heavy-duty on-road vehicles your company owns and/or operates. Heavy-duty on-road vehicles are defined as vehicles exceeding 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight rating. 

 

Company Information

Company Name
Address
City/State/Zip Code
 / /
Contact Name
email address
Contact Phone Number
Fax Number
D&B Revenue $ (optional)
D&B Number of Employees (optional)

On-Road Vehicle Use Survey

Q1. Which of the following categories best describes the type of your company? (Select the best response)
  Trucking company
  Terminal (transfer/intermodal)
  Commercial maintenance facility
  Municipal services
   

(please specify the type of services)

  Utility services
   

(please specify the type of services your company provides)

  Delivery services
  Other
   

 (please specify)

     
Q2. The heavy-duty vehicles your company operates are:
  Owned by the company
  Leased (90 days or longer)
    (if this option checked, please provide the name of the leasing company )
  Rental/short-term lease (less than 90 days)
  Our company does not operate heavy-duty vehicles

Q3. In which of the following counties do the company’s vehicles routinely operate? (Check all that apply).          

   

Barrow Bartow Carroll Cherokee Clayton   Cobb

Coweta     Dawson     DeKalb     Douglas     Fayette     Forsyth 
Fulton     Gwinnett    Hall     Henry      Newton     Paulding 
Rockdale     Spalding      Walton      All counties

 


Please answer the following four questions for every type of vehicle your company operates.

Type A vehicles

FHWA Class 5 vehicles: Two-axle single unit trucks

1.How many vehicles of this type does your company operate?

2.Estimate an average number of miles traveled per vehicle per year:

3.Estimate an average percentage of miles each vehicle traveled in the 21 counties listed in Q3:

4.Estimate an average percentage of non-freeway miles each vehicle traveled in 21 counties listed in Q3:


Type B vehicles

FHWA Class 6 and class 7 vehicles: Single unit trucks with more than two axles


1.How many vehicles of this type does your company operate?

2.Estimate an average number of miles traveled per vehicle per year:

3.Estimate an average percentage of miles each vehicle traveled in the 21 counties listed in Q3:

4.Estimate an average percentage of non-freeway miles each vehicle traveled in 21 counties listed in Q3:


 
Type C vehicles

FHWA Class 8 vehicles: Three-four axle, single trailer vehicles

1.How many vehicles of this type does your company operate?

2.Estimate an average number of miles traveled per vehicle per year:

3.Estimate an average percentage of miles each vehicle traveled in the 21 counties listed in Q3:

4.Estimate an average percentage of non-freeway miles each vehicle traveled in 21 counties listed in Q3:


Type D vehicles

FHWA Class 9 vehicles: Five-axle single trailer truck combination

FHWA Class 10 through 13 vehicles: Six+ axle, or more multiple-trailer trucks





1.How many vehicles of this type does your company operate?

2.Estimate an average number of miles traveled per vehicle per year:

3.Estimate an average percentage of miles each vehicle traveled in the 21 counties listed in Q3:

4.Estimate an average percentage of non-freeway miles each vehicle traveled in 21 counties listed in Q3:

Please enter as much information as possible about the heavy-duty vehicles that your company owns into table below. If your company owns less than 9 heavy-duty vehicles, please enter the data for each and every vehicle. If your company owns more than 9 heavy-duty vehicles, group your vehicles by type and model year and enter the data for each model year. Please make copies of this page if you need additional space. Extra copies of this survey may also be downloaded from http://heavyduty.ce.gatech.edu. If you already have the database, which contains the same information as the table below and you wish to provide us with it, please send your database as email attachment to heavyduty@ce.gatech.edu .

Heavy-Duty Vehicles Profiles

Vehicle Type
(A-D)*

Vehicle
Model
Year

Number of Vehicles of this Model Year

Gasoline(G)
or
Diesel (D)
or
LNG
or
CNG
or
Propane

Engine
Manuf

Engine

Model

Engine Model Year**

Engine Displacement***

Expected Remaining Service Life in Years***

Vehicle Miles Traveled per Year

Typical Engine
Fuel Use in Gallons/yr

* Please use classification scheme presented for the previous questions

** If different from the Vehicle Model Year. If Engine has been recalibrated than, please place an“R”after model year (e.g. 1996R)

*** These questions are optional

Additional comments:


Please return the survey in the enclosed envelope to:

Air Quality Laboratory
School of Civil&Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta , Georgia , 30332-0355

With all the questions regarding this survey please contact:

Ms. Olga Kemenova
School of Civil&Environmental Engineering , Georgia Tech
phone: (404)-894-9345
e-mail: olga@aql.gatech.edu