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To establish a realistic heavy vehicle traffic flow model, this study proposes a heavy vehicle random traffic flow simulation method that fully considers the vehicle weight correlation based on the measured weigh-in-motion data. First, a probability model of the key parameters in the actual traffic flow is established. Then, a random traffic flow simulation of heavy vehicles is realized using the R-vine Copula model and improved Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method. Finally, the load effect is calculated using a calculation example to explore the necessity of considering the vehicle weight correlation. The results indicate that the vehicle weight of each model is significantly correlated. Compared to the Monte Carlo method, the improved LHS method better considers the correlation between high-dimensional variables. 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