NTL Record

Title Long-term pavement monitoring program : development of pavement monitoring : prepared for alternative development workshop
Record ID 31038
Personal Name
Creator
Lytton, Robert L.; Rauhut, J. Brent (James Brent), 1928-; Darter, Michael I.
Source xi, 206 p.
Corporate Creator Brent Rauhut Engineering, Inc.
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Office of Highway Planning
Publisher United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 19840800
Language English
Abstract Long-term monitoring efforts have been carried on for a number of years at state and national level and have been generally accepted. However, the shape that it takes in the future will depend very largely upon the decisions that are made in this Workshop concerning the following very basic issues: (1) What questions related to the financing management of the nation's highways need to be answered and can only be answered with a continuing data monitoring effort? (2) What data need to be collected and evaluated in order to answer these questions? (3) What is the best way to collect and evaluate these data in order to answer a number of basic and important questions? The deterioration of the highway infrastructure and the consequent need to use tax dollars wisely to maintain, rehabilitate, and reconstruct the highway system have presented the highway community, the state and national governments with basic policy and technical questions to which, at present, there are only tentative or intuitive answers. Rehabilitated or reconstructed pavements are more difficult to design and construct properly than are new pavements. The composition of the vehicle fleet and vehicle loading distributions, the construction of tires, and the magnitude and distribution of tire pressures are changing rapidly and are expected to have a significant impact on the rate of highway deterioration. There is a growing recognition of the importance of climatic influences on the rate of pavement deterioration. All of these changes have created a dynamic situation for policy-makers who are attempting to determine cost responsibilities for different highway users and to define equitable means of apportioning the funds that are available for preserving our nation's highway network.
Rosap ID dot:797
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/797
TRT Terms Pavement performance; Pavement management systems; Monitoring; Concrete pavements
Classification NTL - HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION - Construction and Maintenance
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1140735
Contract Number DTFH61-83-C-00164
Availability Federal Highway Administration
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/31000/31000/31038/Long-Term_Pavement_Monitoring_Program_OCT_1984_1_.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository