A New Method of Traffic Evaluation for Use in Pavement Design
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Most procedures currently used for the structural and geometric design of pavements fail to treat adequately the effects of mixed traffic on pavement life. The effects of the magpitude$ the configuration, and the number of repetitions of various wheel loads should be included as variables in any good pavement design procedure. An analysis of the axle loads observed on Texas highways is used with equivalence factors developed at the recently completed American Association of State Highway Officials' Road Test to develop a practical method for analyzing the damaging effects of mixed traffic. The method of traffic evaluation can be adapted for use with many different design procedures.
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