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https://doi.org/10.3141/2087-02

http://scholar.google.com...nson&publication_year=2008

The Minnesota Department of Transportation began construction on the Minnesota Road Research Project (MnROAD) in 1991 and opened the full-scale pavement research facility to live traffic in 1994. Since the time of its construction, MnROAD, the first major test track since the AASHO Road Test of the 1950s and 1960s, has provided many lessons in pavement testing and pavement engineering on behalf of the greater pavement community. Researchers at the University of Minnesota reviewed these lessons from the first phase of MnROAD (the facility’s first 10 years of operation) for a project titled MnROAD Lessons Learned. The Lessons Learned project involved more than 50 interviews; 300 published and unpublished reports, papers, and briefs; and an online survey of pavement professionals. This paper, based on the Lessons Learned project, presents a sample of the lasting benefits of MnROAD at the local, state, and national levels. Furthermore, the paper provides extensive references for these benefits in the hope of increasing awareness of this pavement test facility’s underpublicized contributions to pavement engineering.

01121592

English

pp 12-19

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309126007

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Figures (1) ; References (79) ; Tables (1)

Benefits; Lessons learned; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Test tracks

Minnesota Road Research Project (MnROAD)

Pavement testing

Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 29 2008 2:30PM

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• Calibration of Mechanistic–Empirical Models for Flexible Pavements Using California Heavy Vehicle Simulators
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• Dynamic Analysis and In-Situ Validation of Perpetual Pavement Response to Vehicular Loading
• Effect of Traffic Load Measurement Bias on Pavement Life Prediction: A Mechanistic-Empirical Perspective
• Local Calibration of Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide for Flexible Pavement Design
• Pavement Rutting Performance Prediction by Integrated Weibull Approach
• Repeatability of Asphalt Strain Measurements Under Full-Scale Dynamic Loading
• Strain and Pulse Duration Considerations for Extended-Life Hot-Mix Asphalt Pavement Design