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https://doi.org/10.3141/1643-05

http://scholar.google.com...aran&publication_year=1998

Previous investigation into the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT's) Pavement Management System (WSPMS) revealed pavement sections on the state route system that were outperforming or underperforming other pavement sections constructed of similar materials and subjected to similar traffic and environmental conditions. Reasons were not clear. The WSPMS was used to identify superior and inferior candidate pavements for further investigation. All state route pavements were stratified into 18 distinct analysis groups, and population statistics were generated for each group providing WSDOT with a snapshot of the current "state of the state route system" and providing the basis for selecting candidate pavements. The five performance measures considered included: age of the surface course, a distress-based pavement structural condition score, annual design-lane equivalent single axle loads, roughness (in terms of International Roughness Index), and rutting. Results of the analysis suggest that WSDOT is properly designing layer thicknesses at appropriate reliability levels. Also, in 6 of 10 analysis group comparisons, inferior pavements were actually thicker than superior pavements. Both findings suggest that thickness design factors are not the primary cause of inferior performance in Washington State; construction, material and site specific factors are likely the cause. Additionally, in an international effort to exchange information on pavement performance and construction practices, highlights of a comparative study of pavement performance with South Africa's Gauteng Department of Transportation are presented.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1643, Pavement Management and Monitoring of Traffic and Pavements.

English

p. 25-33

1998

Transportation Research Record

0309065151

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Age; Axle load force; Construction management; Cooperation; Equivalent single axle loads; Evaluation; Information, data, and knowledge; International; International compacts; Location; Materials; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Pavements; Roughness; Rutting; Surface course (Pavements); Thickness; Traffic equivalence factor

Building sites; Information exchange; Pavement conditions

South Africa; Washington (State)

South Africa; Washington (State)

Construction; Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces

TRIS, TRB

Nov 17 1998 12:00AM

• "OFF-THE-WALL" PAVEMENT DISTRESS VARIABILITY STUDY
• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RIDE QUALITY MEASURING DEVICES
• ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR DERIVATION OF SECTION-RELATED MEASURES OF TRAFFIC SYSTEM PERFORMANCE USING INDUCTIVE LOOP DETECTORS
• ANALYSIS OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES PROGRAMMING BY GENETIC ALGORITHMS
• ASSESSMENT OF LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE PLAN WALL PROJECTION-BASED DISTRESS DATA VARIABILITY
• CONTRACTING FOR PAVEMENT DISTRESS DATA COLLECTION
• DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRESS PROGRESSION MODELS USING PANEL DATA SETS OF IN-SERVICE PAVEMENTS
• DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED FORMULA TO PRIORITIZE PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECTS
• EFFECT OF NOISY DATA ON PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE PREDICTION BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
• ELECTRONIC PERMITTING ISSUANCE SYSTEM FOR OVERSIZE/OVERWEIGHT VEHICLES
• FIELD TEST OF NONINTRUSIVE TRAFFIC DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES
• INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION-COMPATIBLE INDEX FOR PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS
• MINIMUM PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE MODELING AND MAPPING FOR ALASKAN CONDITIONS
• PAVEMENT DETERIORATION, RATE OF DYNAMIC FORCE, AND RIDE QUALITY
• PAVEMENT PRESERVATION STRATEGY
• PROJECT SCOPING USING FALLING WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETER TESTING: NEW JERSEY EXPERIENCE
• SWITCHING TO INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX
• TRUCK TRAFFIC CROSSING TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER
• TRUCK WEIGHT ENFORCEMENT MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS: DEVELOPMENT AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION
• UPDATE OF LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE MANUAL DISTRESS DATA VARIABILITY: BIAS AND PRECISION
• VEHICLE RE-IDENTIFICATION AND TRAVEL TIME MEASUREMENT IN REAL-TIME ON FREEWAYS USING EXISTING LOOP DETECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE