“Going Green” with Textile Interlayers: How to Apply with Pavement Preservation

The ultimate responsibility of public agencies is to recognize they are the trustee of the taxpayers’ money and are required to use sound engineering judgment in determining what is best, in the short term and long term, for preserving the public road system. The current demand is to go “going green”; some practitioners address this need by recycling materials whenever possible - in some cases this may be the best solution. Other practitioners are considering other ways to preserve the existing pavement, including material and natural resources, as another and possibly better alternative. In either case, practitioners realize the need to “go green” and are considering numerous alternatives to identify sound engineering judgments in their effort to preserve roadways. Textile interlayers (paving fabrics) have existed since the mid-1960s and private industry has introduced a “green paving fabric” to meet the current demand facing public agencies. Textile interlayers are recognized as a viable product and AASHTO and State DOTs have developed guidelines to assist agencies, at all levels, in its proper use and selection. This paper will help public agencies evaluate how the use of paving fabrics (conventional and green) can be used as a pavement preservation strategy because of its ability to address distresses in a pavement surface, and also preserve the structural integrity of a roadway. The reader will also learn how the use of paving fabrics are environmentally sensitive from manufacturing to placement, preserve material and natural resources, and are a recyclable product as well.

• Record URL:
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• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Foundation for Pavement Preservation

  2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
  Washington, DC  United States  20036-3309
• Authors:
  • Miner, John
  • Davis, Lita
• Conference:
  • First International Conference on Pavement Preservation
  • Location: Newport Beach CA, United States
  • Date: 2010-4-13 to 2010-4-15
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 277-295
• Monograph Title: Compendium of Papers from the First International Conference on Pavement Preservation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impacts; Fabrics; Green; Greenhouse effect; Pavement layers; Structural analysis; Textiles
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01158666
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 11 2010 12:05PM