Managing Pavement Assets for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities

Pavement design practice, which has been largely empirical, is moving toward more mechanistic approaches. Advanced pavement technology must be applicable to all classes of streets and special applications and must integrate pavement designs with the materials, the traffic loading, the climate, and the methods of preservation and rehabilitation to produce reliable, economical, and user-friendly designs.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22014
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/07386826
• Authors:
  • Kazmierowski, Thomas J
• Publication Date: 2007-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 9-14
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 253
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826
  • Serial URL: https://doi.org/10.17226/895

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Mechanistic design; Pavement design; Pavement management systems
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01086729
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 2:54PM