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Title

Towards sustainable local urban road pavements

Author(s)

Alcazar, Eduardo;  Hassan, Rayya;  McManus, Kerry J.

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 this study were validated using other data sets and compared with some of the published cracking models. The new methodology proved to be effective and reliable.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences

Source

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment: The Sustainable City III: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability: papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, Siena, Italy, 16-18 June 2004, Vol. 72

Publication year

2004

Publisher

WIT Press

ISSN

1743-3541

ISBN

9781853127205, 1853127205

Publisher URL

http://library.witpress.com/pages/PaperInfo.asp?PaperID=12356

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 WIT Press. Published version reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.

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