WHAT'S THE FAVORITE TOPPING? : DENVER COMPARING ASPHALT AND CONCRETE OVERLAYS

This article relates how the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Region 6 chose to use whitetopping concrete overlay to address rutting and continual maintenance on a high-traffic asphalt highway in Denver. A 6 in. layer of concrete was used to cover the 6 in. layer of asphalt. The use of whitetopping allowed CDOT to speed up the process as well as providing a maintenance-free surface. The CDOT has also built an asphalt overlay section on the north side of the roadway in order to provide a mechanism for comparing concrete and asphalt performance.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Scranton Gillette Communications

  380 E Northwest Highway, Suite 200
  Des Planes, IL  United States  60016-2282
• Publication Date: 2003-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 58-59
• Serial:
  • Roads & Bridges
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
  • ISSN: 8750-9229
  • Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Construction scheduling; Highway maintenance; Overlays (Pavements); Whitetopping
• Geographic Terms: Colorado
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00962309
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 2 2003 12:00AM