PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE MODEL DEVELOPMENT. VOLUME IV: ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT & CALIBRATION GUIDELINES. FINAL REPORT

The use of response-type roughness meters to characterize pavement roughness is a common practice among state highway agencies. Unfortunately, because of the operational characteristics of these meters, they cannot be relied upon to produce time-stable and comparable measures between different measures. Thus, there is a need to standardize the output of the different meters over time. This process is commonly called calibration. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the various statistics which have been proposed for calibration, select a statistic for a generalized roughness index which may be used by all state highway agencies, and present a calibration procedure which can be used for roughness measurements in the LTM program (Long-term Monitoring Program).

• Corporate Authors:

  ARE Engineering Consultants, Incorporated

  2600 Dellana Lane
  Austin, TX  United States  78746

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Hudson, W R
  • Halbach, D S
  • MOSER, L
  • Zaniewski, John P
• Publication Date: 1985-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 98 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Computer programs; Measuring instruments; Pavement performance; Roughness; Simulation; Standardization; Statistics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selecting
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00461778
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/RD-84/106, FH-9/4, FCP 34A2-252
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-61-80-C-00054
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1987 12:00AM