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The use of response-type, road-roughness-measuring systems as part of surface tolerance specifications is attracting increasing interest among highway agencies as a rapid, inexpensive means of measuring the smoothness of roads during and after construction. Problems such as calibration, vehicle maintenance, and the repeatability of test results must be taken into account and resolved or minimized when these roughness-measuring systems are used for acceptance or rejection of projects for smoothness. The Georgia Department of Transportation has been using road meters in its specifications since 1972 for acceptance of projects and since 1979 for both rejection and acceptance. The evolution of the road-roughness-measuring program in Georgia, the calibration and operating procedures, the current smoothness specifications, and the use of Mays meter data during construction are described. (Author)

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Braking performance; Calibration; Measuring instruments; Pavements; Roughness; Specifications; Surface course (Pavements); Texture

Georgia

Highways; Pavements; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces

HSL, TRIS, TRB

Oct 30 1985 12:00AM

• EVALUATION OF PANEL RATING METHODS FOR ASSESSING PAVEMENT RIDE QUALITY
• HIGH-SPEED ROAD MONITORING SYSTEM
• MECHANISTIC MODEL FOR PREDICTING SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN SKID RESISTANCE
• PAVEMENT EDGES AND VEHICLE STABILITY: A BASIS FOR MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES
• PENN STATE AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING ROAD METER RECORDS
• PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN USING VEHICLE RIDE AS A CRITERION OF PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS
• SKID-RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS WITH BLANK AND RIBBED TEST TIRES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PAVEMENT TEXTURE
• TIRE NOISE AND ITS RELATION TO PAVEMENT FRICTION