Commercial Vehicle Operations: Benefits

The benefits resulting from the application of ITS to Commercial Vehicle Operations are numerous; a few concrete examples are listed below:

Onboard Safety Systems, along with automatic clearance and automated roadside safety inspections, are estimated to reduce fatalities by 14% to 32%. For instance, a recent study showed that the number of unsafe drivers removed from the highway by safety inspectors increased by a third (from 8,000 to 12,000) with the use of advanced safety information systems.
Cost savings associated with hazardous material incident response amount to 1.7 million a year per state, or $85 million nationwide.
Freight mobility systems have yielded productivity gains for private carriers as high as 25% a day per truck.
Automated administrative processes (credentialing) could potentially yield benefits of $4 for each dollar invested for midsize carriers, and benefits of $20 for each dollar invested for large-size carriers.
Aside from reducing congestion at stations, electronic clearance processes have been shown to reduce motor carrier labor costs, yielding benefit/cost ratios of 7:1.