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
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Contract Numbers:
DTRT13-G-UTC30
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Sponsor Organizations:
National Transportation Center @ Maryland
1173 Glenn L. Martin Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland United States 20742 -
Project Managers:
Zhang, Lei
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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