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Title:

Pilot Study: Pavement Visual Condition and Friction as a Performance Measure for Winter Operations
Cover of Pilot Study: Pavement Visual Condition and Friction as a Performance Measure for Winter Operations

Accession Number:

01551504

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Snow and ice removal and clearing roadways after a winter storm account for major portion of roadway agencies located in snowy region’s maintenance budget. With the decreasing funds and increasing demand from the motoring public for mobility, roadway agencies are continuously looking for new innovative approaches for winter maintenance operations. One of the main focus of these approaches include performance measures for winter maintenance. This is specifically important when roadway agencies use contractors to perform winter maintenance tasks. In this study, two performance measures are studied extensively. These include, visual pavement condition behind the snow plow and pavement friction behind the snow plow. Visual pavement condition was observed and recorded into one of five categories while driving behind a snow plow. Pavement friction behind snow plow is measured using a Continuous Friction Measuring (CFT) device. Since visual pavement condition provides driver’s perception of the winter driving condition and friction measurements provide an objective measurement of the safety of the roadway under winter condition, a correlation of these provides a basic guideline for winter maintenance and performance measurement of winter maintenance. During the past winter, multiple data collection cycles were performed behind different type of snow plows along I-96 in Livingston County. These preliminary data was used to obtain relationships between winter storm severity, snow plow type and the selected performance measures.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD65 Winter Maintenance. Alternate title: Pavement Visual Condition and Friction as Performance Measure for Winter Operations: Pilot Study

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-0574

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bandara, Nishantha

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Livingston County (Michigan)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I62: Winter Maintenance; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0574

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:18PM