ESTIMATION OF CUMULATIVE STANDARD AXLES FOR PAVEMENT DESIGN AND STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE

For the design of new roads information is required on the weights and numbers of commercial vehicles that will use the road during its design life. For the purpose of structural maintenance similar data are required for both past and future traffic. Often, there is no specific information. The paper describes the general sources of data that are available on past traffic and illustrates by an example the manner in which the designer may use them to make estimates of past and future traffic at a particular location. Careful interpretation and application of the data gives predicitons that should usually provide adequate guidance on the total numbers of standard axles to be expected. However, local axle weight surveys accompanied by a simultaneous classified vehicle count will often be justified, particularly for the purposes of structural maintenance. (a) for the covering abstract, see TRIS 368660. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of a Seminar, the Estimation of Traffic for Road Pavement Design, held at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, March 23, 1981.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)

  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • Addis, R R
  • CURRER, EWH
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 42-65
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Transport and Road Research Laboratory
  • Publisher: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • ISSN: 0266-7045

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axle load force; Commercial vehicles; Conferences; Durability; Estimating; Estimation theory; Pavement design; Pavement maintenance; Pavements; Strength of materials; Structural strengthening; Traffic counts; Traffic surveys; Trucks; Vehicle weight; Weight
• ITRD Terms: 3067: Axle load; 8525: Conference; 5910: Durability; 132: Forecast; 1236: Lorry; 3055: Pavement design; 3096: Strengthening (pavement); 689: Traffic count; 676: Traffic survey; 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00368663
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: SR 720
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1983 12:00AM