01366085

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2304-04

http://scholar.google.com...iser&publication_year=2012

Ride quality and structural adequacy are key pavement performance indicators. The relationship between these indicators has been a topic of frequent and continuing discussion in the pavement community, but an accepted and widely used relationship has not yet been identified. The objective of this study was to identify and verify the relationship between these two performance indicators, if any, with data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance Program. This study was meant to improve the evaluation and use of pavement condition data in pavement rehabilitation and design decisions. More specifically, it was intended to develop and document a mechanism to include values of both ride and structural adequacy within the context of current network-level pavement management system practices for highway agency implementation to ensure smooth pavements that are also structurally adequate. To accomplish the study objective, two major activities were carried out: a literature search to gather, review, and synthesize available information on relating ride quality and structural adequacy and a review and assessment of data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance Program to determine if such a relationship exists. These two activities—as well as their major findings, observations, and conclusions—are detailed; a viable relationship could not be identified.

01471223

12-1472

English

pp 28–36

2012

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309263030

Print

Figures; References; Tables

Condition surveys; Correlation analysis; Deflection; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Rehabilitation; Ride quality; Structural health monitoring

Long-Term Pavement Performance Program

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 8 2012 5:02PM

• Accounting for Material-Specific Inflation Rates in Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Pavement Type Selection
• Application of Texture Analysis and Kohonen Map for Region Segmentation of Pavement Images for Crack Detection
• Approximation Approach to Problem of Large-Scale Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation
• Cracking and Rutting Performance of Composite Pavements Under Testing with Heavy Vehicle Simulator: Rubberized Hot-Mix Asphalt with Gap-Graded Aggregates over Portland Cement Concrete
• Developing Pavement Performance Models for Delaware
• Evaluation of Asphalt Damage and Cracking Development with Seismic Pavement Analyzer
• Evaluation of Traffic-Speed Deflectometers
• Evolution of Asphalt Mixture Stiffness Under Combined Effects of Damage, Aging, and Densification Under Traffic
• Field Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Measurement of Asphalt Mixture Density: Case Study of Illinois Route 72 Overlay
• Impact of Wide-Base Tires on Pavements: Results from Instrumentation Measurements and Modeling Analysis
• Implementation of Network-Level Falling Weight Deflectometer Survey
• Impulse Response Dynamic Stiffness Decay in Aging General Aviation Airfield Pavements
• Model to Estimate Pavement Structural Number at Network Level with Rolling Wheel Deflectometer Data
• Modeling Pavement Conditions of Multilane Roads with Measured Driving Lane Data
• Probe Vehicles Used to Measure Road Ride Quality: Pilot Demonstration
• Procedure for Optimum Pavement Deflection Test Spacings for Network-Level Applications
• Realistic Life-Cycle Cost Analysis with Typical Sequential Patterns of Pavement Treatment Through Association Analysis
• Rutting of Rubberized Gap-Graded and Polymer-Modified Dense-Graded Asphalt Overlays in Composite Pavements
• Sustainability of Perpetual Pavement Designs: Canadian Perspective
• Use of Falling Weight Deflectometer Data for Network-Level Flexible Pavement Management
• Wavelet-Based Detection of Roughness Progression in Wavebands for Highways in Victoria, Australia