WIT Press


Towards Sustainable Local Urban Road Pavements

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

72

Pages

9

Published

2004

Size

393 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SC040651

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

E. Alcázar, R. Hassan & K. McManus

Abstract

Preservation of pavements reduces the waste from reconstruction and the associated costs, delays and environmental effects. Controlling the deterioration of road pavement through timely maintenance can extend its life and reduces the likelihood of failure and/or further damage and subsequent traffic and environmental problems. The type of maintenance program and the accuracy of its timing depends largely on the reliability of the available performance models, which is dependent on the quality of condition data. Local government agencies in Australia have a limited budget to manage their road assets and limited condition data is collected every 5-10 years. This paper describes a simple methodology for developing cracking models of asphalt-surfaced pavements from the available limited condition data. The models developed in th

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