PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS AND SKID RESISTANCE

This Transportation Research Board publication contains the following papers: Strategies for Reducing Truck Accidents on Wet Pavements, DL Ivey, WB Horne, and RD Tonda; Methodology for Computing Pavement Ride Quality from Pavement Roughness Measurements, MS Janoff, with discussion by RM Weed and RT Barros and Author's Closure; Critical Evaluation of the Calibration Procedure for Mays Meters, BT Kulakowski; Computation and Analysis of Texture-Induced Contact Information in Tire-Pavement Interaction, TG Clapp and AC Eberhardt; Influence of Pavement Edge and Shoulder Characteristics on Vehicle Handling and Stability, DL Ivey and DL Sicking; Development of a Procedure for Correcting Skid-Resistance Measurements to a Standard End-of-Season Value, DA Anderson, WE Meyer, and JL Rosenberger; International Roughness Index: Relationship to Other Measures of Roughness and Riding Quality, WDO Paterson; The Implication of the International Road Roughness Experiment for Belgium, MB Gorski; Serviceability Prediction from User-Based Evaluations of Pavement Ride Quality, SK Nair and WR Hudson, with discussion by RM Weed and Authors' Closure; and The International Road Roughness Experiment: A Basis for Establishing a Standard Scale for Road Roughness Measurements, MW Sayers, TD Gillespie, and CAV Queiroz.

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• Conference:
  • 65th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1986-1-13 to 1986-1-16
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 89p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1084
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Crashes; Driving; Forecasting; Handling characteristics; Motor vehicles; Pavements; Ride quality; Road meters; Road shoulders; Rolling contact; Roughness; Serviceability; Skid resistance; Stability (Mechanics); Surface course (Pavements); Texture; Trucks; Wet weather
• Uncontrolled Terms: Edges; Wet pavements
• Old TRIS Terms: Contact
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Motor Carriers; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00491823
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• ISBN: 030904104X
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 078
• Files: HSL, TRB, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM