Pavement rutting is one of the most common and destructive pavement distresses being observed in flexible pavements, which is primarily due to axle loads that exceed legal limit and high ambient temperatures, and also poor mix design is one of the cause of rutting. The drastic increase in traffic volume during last few decades has resulted in premature pavement failures of almost the whole road...

This paper treats a problem arising in the design of intelligent vehicles: automated detection of lane and pavement boundaries using forward-looking optical and radar imaging sensors mounted on an automobile. In previous work, lane and pavement boundaries have always been located separately. This separate detection strategy is problematic in situations when either the optical or the radar image...

Resilient modulus of pavement materials is a key property required for the pavement thickness design. This paper describes the results of an experimental study on the effects of temperature and loading frequency on the resilient modulus of a SBS polymer modified asphalt concrete under dry and saturated conditions. Dynamic creep tests were conducted on dry and saturated specimens of the mixture ...

Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation have been neglected in Nigeria for a very long time and has resulted to maintenance backlog. Design agencies in Nigeria still use California Bearing Ratio (CBR), even though the method is outdated. An introduction of Dynamic Cone Penetration Test (DCPT) was pertinent, even though the method is relatively old in some developed countries, it has not gain mu...

We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on residential property values and private residential investment. We find that the provision of street pavement increases housing values by 21-25% according to homeowners, and 14-15% according to professional appraisals. Private investment responded too: Households on paved streets invest more in housing...

This paper describes the planning, design and construction of a permeable pavement as a practical demonstration of the benefits of eco-paving in Australian environmental management. The paper addresses the use of permeable pavements as part of a Water Sensitive Urban Design that allows infiltration of stormwater, reduction of pollutants and slow reticulation of the stormwater to an ecologically...

The correlations between pavement texture and tire pressure with the actual tire-road contact area were first investigated according to static characteristics; on this basis, influence mechanisms of speed friction coefficient systematically explored from angle coupling system dynamics via self-developed dynamic testing tire-pavement friction. By integrating above factors, BP neural network meth...

Modeling pavement performance by combining field and experimental data The accurate prediction of pavement performance is important for efficient management of the surface transportation infrastructure. By reducing the error of the pavement deterioration prediction, agencies can obtain significant budget savings through timely intervention and accurate planning. The goal of this research was to...

A recursive non-linear model was developed for the prediction of pavement performance as a function of traffic characteristics, pavement structural properties and environmental conditions. The model highlights some of the advantages of relaxing the linear restriction that is usually placed on the specification form of pavement performance models. First, a functional form that better represents ...