Management aspects of road pavement rehabilitation

Management aspects of road pavement rehabilitation

The optimization of a pavement management system necessitates the knowledge on the actual values of pavement condition parameters, actual pavement condition improvement as related to the use of various rehabilitation strategies, and scope of pavement deterioration before and after rehabilitation. The data for six pavement condition parameters (bearing capacity, unevenness, rut depth, macro text...

Preliminary Flexible Pavement Rehabilitation Design

The development of a knowledged-based expert system to assist ~he New Mex~co State Highway and Transportation Department m the evaluation and design of rehabilitation schemes for flexible pavements is described. The system uses information provided by users to establish preliminary rehabilitation schemes that would be reasonable and cost-effective. A cost-estimate module for ~anking th~ rehabil...

Toughness Performance of Recycled Aggregates for use in Road Pavement

The policy of driving organization such as Highways Agency is towards the use of performance related specifications. This policy and adoption of European wide aggregate standards on the one hand, and sustainable construction pressures on the other, all strongly emphasize on further need for more developments to specifications and performance assessment methodologies inst...

Pavement Management Primer

Pavements represent the largest capital investment in any modern highway system. Maintaining and operating pavements on a large highway system typically involves complex decisions about how and when to resurface or apply other treatments to keep the highway performing and operating costs at a reasonable level. Traditional methods, used since Roman times, left these decisions up to a road superv...

Effects of pavement lightness and colour on road lighting performance