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Highway quality assurance, like many other specialized subject areas, has its own unique language containing numerous technical terms or expressions having very specific meanings. Some of these terms are not well understood, and their use is subject to a variety of different interpretations. The highway quality assurance language, moreover, is continually changing to keep pace with advances in quality assurance. As new terms come into general use, older terms must often be perceived in a new light. The terminology has grown and evolved steadily since the mid-sixties, when much of it was first introduced to the highway community; however, its growth and evolution have been to a large degree uncontrolled. This circular contains terms of common usage and accepted practice. Its purpose is to provide a reference document containing a recommended standard for usage of highway quality assurance terminology. In developing this publication, Transportation Research Board Committee A2F03, Management of Quality Assurance, reviewed the evolution of the highway quality assurance language, assessed its current condition, and attempted to define not what it is today but what it should be.

This Transportation Research E-Circular, E-C010, has been revised and updated as Transportation Research E-Circular E-C037.

E-C010

English

29 p.

1999-7

Transportation Research Circular

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Construction; Definitions; Glossaries; Highways; Quality assurance

Construction; Highways; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction

NTL, TRIS, TRB

Apr 7 2000 12:00AM