Implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Design Guide for Canadian Municipal Pavements

The City of Toronto maintains a network of about 5,200 centreline-kilometres of roads and over 250 centreline-kilometres of laneways. This pavement infrastructure has been constructed, maintained, and enhanced over more than 100 years. Over the past several decades, fuelled by research and other technological advancements in the pavement engineering field, a gradual shift is being observed in terms of how pavements and pavement materials are designed, tested, evaluated, constructed, and managed. As part of this effort, pavement design is transitioning from an empirical to a mechanistic-empirical realm. The U.S. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 1-37A was issued to develop a new pavement design guide based on mechanistic-empirical principals. This paper describes the implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (ME PDG) procedures for a municipal roadway network in the City of Toronto, Canada in accordance with the principles set out in the ME PDG. The results show that the pavement performance is adequately modeled for fatigue and thermal cracking, but that the roughness and deformation models do not apply well in the municipal setting.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Society for Asphalt Pavements

  4711 Clark Avenue, Suite G
  White Bear Lake, MN  United States  55110
• Authors:
  • SWAN, DJ
  • Olidis, C
  • Berkovitz, M
• Conference:
  • 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASPHALT PAVEMENTS - AUGUST 12 TO 17, 2006, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: p. vol2,143-52
• Monograph Title: 10th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements - August 12 to 17, 2006, Quebec City, Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Conferences; Mix design; Pavement design; Software
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084380
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: TAC
• Created Date: Jan 15 2008 11:38AM