HIGHWAY PAVING TAKES AN UPSWING

The article describes how, in the future, performance specifications and equipment improvements will lead to better pavements. Many contracts will be let for resurfacing or road widening projects when money from the transportation bill starts to flow. To maintain productivity under the prevailing conditions, contractors and highway departments have found ways to speed the return of pavements to traffic by developing equipment geared to working in tight spaces, and by finessing the way they approach traffic management. One technique for ensuring better roads is the movement to supplant materials specifications with performance specifications. Funding of research in this area is noted including the Strategic Highway Research Program. The latter advocates that an approved technology for asphalt should depend upon 3 things: performance specifications; testing to back them up; and a mix design system that makes it easier for the industry to use local materials that meet the specs. Electronic refinements in paving equipment are also noted.

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  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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  New York, NY  United States  10036
• Publication Date: 1992-1-13

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29-30
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 228
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt mixtures; Electronic equipment; Highway traffic control; Mix design; Pavement widening; Pavers; Paving; Performance based specifications; Productivity; Research; Resurfacing; Specifications
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic devices
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Research; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00618838
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 1992 12:00AM