Hazardous Transport Vehicle TEMPLATES

Road Transport: trucks

The TEMPLATE for trucks is very similar to the railway car on in structure; the only difference, at this moment, is the addition of a GSM phone number to potentially reach the car/driver directly.

The main differences are in the Descriptor definitions (primarily types and load volumes, compare the railway car Descriptors).

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### The   Truck Template
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#
# The data in this template is cooked up for explaination only
#

# start header ------
# Max length of ANY line in header is 96 characters
# Max no. of editable ME lines via user interface = 3

NA  railway car                        # object name
ID  1                                  # unique ID
OT  RC               # Type of Object
HY truck.exp
PI objects/roads/gifs/truck1.gif       #hypertext (map, picture) file

ME  Meta Information 1                 # meta information 1
ME  Meta Information 2                 # ...
ME  Meta Information n                 # meta information n
AU  patel   Thu Feb 23 12:45:55 1997   # automatically inserted

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### georeference     (might come from a GPS locator)

GX 124400.0          # latitude / reference X
GY 488700.0          # longitude/ reference Y
EL 25.5              # masl
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#  Owner or operator (may not be known .....)
N1 Bayer_SpA
N2 Stabilimento_di_Filago
ST Via_delle_Industrie_9
TO 24040_Filago
PR Lombardia
ZI 20156_Milano
CO Italy
PH Tel 00123456789
FX Fax 00123456999                 # fax    --> icon
EM donald.duck@working_hard.it     # e-mail --> icon
P2 GSM 00123456789                 # GSM or radio connection to the vehicle

TABLE vehicle
E descriptor 
E value
E method
D type           trailer_truck  edit_descriptor
D Axles          four           edit_descriptor
D Volume         medium         edit_descriptor
D Net_load       medium         edit_descriptor
D N_containers   one            edit_descriptor
D V_containers   medium         edit_descriptor
D container_type tank_container edit_descriptor
END_TABLE

TABLE chemicals
E   chemical_name        # chemical name is NOT a descriptor
E   CAS_number           # CAS number is NOT a descriptor
E   storage_conditions
D   chlorine  cooled
END_TABLE
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Truck specific Descriptors

Since the descriptors for railway cars and trucks are largely the same, the different interpretations (value ranges and defaults) can be expressed as ALTERNATIVES in the descriptor definition:

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# Truck description

DESCRIPTOR
Type
T S
V tanker_truck / trailer_truck / flatbed_truck / small_truck /
Q what is the type of this truck ?
ENDDESCRIPTOR

DESCRIPTOR
Axles
T S
V two / four /
ALTERNATIVE Alternative(trucks)
V two /three /four/ five /
ENDALTERNATIVE
R 310
Q How many axles does that railway car have ?
ENDDESCRIPTOR

DESCRIPTOR
Net_Load
T S
U t
# Default: petroleum and chemicals, 2 axles
V  small  [ 22., 22.5.,23.]
V  medium [ 23., 23.5.,24.]
V  large  [ 24., 24.5.,25.]
D medium
ALTERNATIVE Alternative(4axles)
V  small  [ 41., 44.,46.]
V  medium [ 46., 48.,50.]
V  large  [ 50., 52.,54.]
ENDALTERNATIVe
ALTERNATIVE Alternative(trucks)
V very_small [  0.1,  0.5, 1.0]
V small      [  1.0,  3.5, 8.0]
V medium     [  8.0, 10.,  18.] 
V large      [ 18.,  20.,  26.]
Q What is the net Loading capacity of this truck ?
ENDALTERNATIVe
R 302 / 303 / 304 / 308 /
R 401 / 402 / 403 / 404/ 405 /406 /
Q What is the net Loading capacity of this railway car ?
ENDDESCRIPTOR

DESCRIPTOR
N_containers
T S
V  one  [ 1,1,1]
V  two  [ 1,2,2]
V  three[ 2,3,3]
V  four [ 3,4,4]
Q how many containers are on this flatbed car ?
ALTERNATIVE Alternative(boxcar)
ENDALTERNATIVE
D  2
ENDDESCRIPTORS

DESCRIPTOR
V_containers
T S
u m3
V  small  [ 20., 25.,30.]
V  medium [ 30., 45.,50.]
V  large  [ 50., 60.,70.]
R 308 /
Q what is the (average) volume of the containers on the 
Q flatbed car ?
D medium 
ENDDESCRIPTORS

DESCRIPTOR
Container_type
T S
V tank_container / roll_container / bottles /
Q what shape is the container on the truck ?
ENDDESCRIPTER

Associated Rules

RULE 310
IF vehicle == truck
IF vehicle == truck
THEN Axle BECOMES Alternative(trucks) 
ENDRULE

RULE 401
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == tanker_truck
AND         Axles   == two
THEN Net_Load =  12.0 
ENDRULE

RULE 402
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == tanker_truck
AND         Axles   == three
THEN  Net_Load = 20.0
ENDRULE

RULE 403
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == tanker_truck
AND         Axles   >  three
THEN  Net_Load = 25.0
ENDRULE

RULE 404
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == trailer_truck
AND         Axles   == three
THEN Net_Load =  10.0 
ENDRULE

RULE 405
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == trailer_truck
AND         Axles   == four
THEN  Net_Load = 28.0
ENDRULE

RULE 406
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == trailer_truck
AND         Axles   >= four
THEN  Net_Load = 28.0
ENDRULE

RULE 407
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == flatbed_truck
AND         Axles   == two
THEN Net_Load =  12.0 
ENDRULE

RULE 408
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == flatbed_truck
AND         Axles   == three
THEN  Net_Load = 20.0
ENDRULE

RULE 409
IF        vehicle   == truck
AND         Type    == flatbed_truck
AND         Axles   >  three
THEN  Net_Load = 25.0
ENDRULE

RULE 410
IF Type  == flatbed_truck
AND Container_type = tank_container
THEN Net_load =  0.8 * Net_load
ENDRULE