Night Paving in Trinidad--Achieving Quality

In 2003, the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT) began construction of hot mix asphalt (HMA) overlay for Runway 10-28 at Piarco International Airport, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Due to problems with aggregate quality, overlay placement and pilot complaints on runway roughness, the paving works were suspended and the Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) requested that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conduct a roughness survey using their airport pavement inertial profiler with their PROFAA analytical software to quantify the extent of the roughness. That survey confirmed that the pavement was rough as characterized by several commonly used roughness indexes, including simulated straight-edge, Boeing Bump Index (BBI), aircraft response, International Roughness Index (IRI), and simulated California Profilograph Index (PI). The FAA also identified several other issues associated with HMA production and placement and recommended that remedial actions be initiated to correct the problems.

• Record URL:
  http://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/Airport-R-D/Conference-and-Workshop/Airport-RD-Conference-Detail/dt/Detail/ItemID/225/Night-Paving-in-Trinidad-%E2%80%93-Achieving-Quality
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Frederick, Louis
  • McQueen, Roy D
  • Decker, Christopher S
  • Berntson, A Kay
• Conference:
  • 2010 FAA Worldwide Airport Technology Transfer Conference
  • Location: Atlantic City New Jersey, United States
  • Date: 2010-4-20 to 2010-4-22
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: 2010 FAA Worldwide Airport Technology Transfer Conference: Next Generation of Airport Technology

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Hot mix asphalt; Overlays (Pavements); Paving; Roughness; Simulation
• Identifier Terms: International Roughness Index; ProFAA (Computer program)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01608238
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 2016 2:30PM