"STICKING" WITH ROSAN

ROSAN, the short name for the Road Surface Analyzer, will soon be available for market through an agreement between the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and a private company in South Carolina. The automated and computerized device, which is mounted on a vehicle and does its testing while the vehicle is moving at normal traffic speeds, can gather data on 160 km of pavement in just one testing session. Engineers and technicians can use the information either for new construction quality assurance control or for pavement monitoring programs. It can also be used to measure road roughness (profiling) longitudinally and transversely to the direction of travel. ROSAN specializes in measuring macrotexture, any change in the pavement surface that is greater than 0.5 mm and less than 5 mm. It can also be used to measure the extent to which rubber debris on a runway has filled the pavement transverse grooves, lessening texture and friction and causing the runway to lose the ability to channel water.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/98janfeb/rosan.cfm
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1586080
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Koklanaris, M
• Publication Date: 1998-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 8-11
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 61
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Evaluation; Pavement maintenance; Pavement performance; Pavement surface course; Pavements; Roughness; Service life; Structural tests; Technological innovations; Texture; Thickness
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement thickness; Road surface analyzer
• Old TRIS Terms: Pavement life; Pavement tests
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Pavements; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00747915
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 23 1998 12:00AM