FAST SURVEY FOR PAVEMENTS

The revolutionary High Speed Road Monitor developed in the United Kingdom to gauge road conditions without stopping traffic is described. Developed by the Transport & Road Research Laboratory, it comprises a long, low trailer coupled to a towing vehicle. The trailer is fitted with 6 laser sensors used to measure and analyze longitudinal road profiles, wheel track rutting, surface texture and road alignment. Inclinometers and distance transducers log gradients, crossfalls and curvature radii. The HSRM can make all these measurements simultaneously and without stopping. All data is recorded on magnetic cartridges in the towing vehicle which also carries HSRM's controls, power pack and a small computer. Details of its use are briefly summarized.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/08919526
• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

  330 West 42nd Street
  New York, NY  United States  10036
• Publication Date: 1990-1-11

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 18
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 224
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alignment; Condition surveys; Evaluation; Highway curves; Highway grades; Lasers; Monitoring; Pavements; Roads; Roughness; Ruts (Pavements); Sensors; Slopes; Surface course (Pavements); Texture
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement conditions; Road profile; Rut
• Old TRIS Terms: Cross fall
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00492179
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM