Impact of Freight Movement Trends on Highway Pavement Infrastructure

The objective of this research project is to investigate the impacts of national freight traffic trends and projections on the pavement infrastructure. The outcome will be a map of the major transportation corridors that identifies critical locations where projected freight trends may have the strongest negative impact on the transportation infrastructure. The proposed work is limited in scope to the pavement performance, but may provide insight into other parts of the transportation infrastructure. This objective will be accomplished through the following 6 tasks: (1) Literature Review; (2) Developing Correlations between Traffic Volume, Loads, and Composition; (3) Identifying Pavement Design Information; (4) Predicting Pavement Performance with the Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Design/Analysis Tool; (5) Developing "Hot Spots" Map for Freight Impacts on Highway Infrastructure; (6) Final Reporting.

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Language

English

Project

Status: Completed
Funding: $40000.00
Contract Numbers:
DTRT13-G-UTC30
Sponsor Organizations:
National Transportation Center @ Maryland

1173 Glenn L. Martin Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland United States 20742
Project Managers:
Zhang, Lei
Performing Organizations:
Arizona State University, Tempe

Tempe, AZ United States
Principal Investigators:
Underwood, Shane
Start Date: 20140301
Expected Completion Date: 0
Actual Completion Date: 20150430
Source Data: RiP Project 37168

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Freight traffic; Infrastructure; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Traffic loads; Traffic volume
Identifier Terms: Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01575252
Record Type: Research project
Source Agency: National Transportation Center @ Maryland
Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC30
Files: UTC, RIP
Created Date: Sep 1 2015 1:43AM