Low-Volume-Road Lessons Learned: Minnesota Road Research Project

The Minnesota Department of Transportation built the Minnesota Road Research Project (MnROAD) and its low-volume road (LVR) between 1990 and 1993. The 2.5-mi LVR consists of a two-lane roadway that originally contained gravel, hot-mix asphalt, and concrete test sections designed for low-volume road research. Each of these test sections is trafficked by a controlled five-axle tractor-semitrailer to simulate conditions of rural roads in two load configurations, resulting in the same equivalent axle loads. Over the years, a number of activities and studies have taken place that have used information from MnROAD’s LVR. The first 10 years of findings related to the LVR in the areas of facility, hot-mix asphalt, portland cement concrete, aggregate surfacing, seasonal load limits, and non-pavement-related lessons learned are summarized.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1989-23
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• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Low-Volume-Road+Lessons+Learned%3a+Minnesota+Road+Research+Project&author=B.+Worel&author=T.+Clyne&author=T.+Burnham&author=D.+Johnson&author=D.+Tompkins&publication_year=2007
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• Authors:
  • Worel, Benjamin J
  • Clyne, Timothy R
  • Burnham, Thomas R
  • Johnson, David M
  • Tompkins, Derek M
• Conference:
  • 9th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads
  • Location: Austin Texas, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-27
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 198-207
• Monograph Title: Low-Volume Roads 2007. Volume 1
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 1989
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Asphalt pavements; Concrete pavements; Gravel roads; Hot mix asphalt; Lessons learned; Load limits; Low volume roads; Portland cement concrete; Rural highways; Test sections; Two lane highways
• Identifier Terms: Minnesota Road Research Project (MnROAD)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Seasonal variations
• Geographic Terms: Minnesota
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01050894
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309104647
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 7 2007 10:20AM