Pavement distress information is needed to assess maintenance requirements. Many traditional systems adopted time consuming manual operations to evaluate pavement surface distresses. To improve this method, a small network ...

Fine aggregates are one of prime constitute in asphalt mix design. However, the effect of fine a8SreSale morphology (angularity) on asphalt mixtures behaviour is well recognized in literature. For example, the excessive ...

Men and women travel behaviours are different during the joumev to work from their home. Men travel more length of travel and tend to work more days in a week than that of women. Study on men and women travellers’ behaviour ...

When it is compared with the flexible pavements, tensile stresses along the pavement layers are more significant in rigid pavements. Shrinkage stresses and thermal stresses are the dominant contributors to develop the ...

With the ever-increasing traffic congestion, it is needed to initiate sustainable traffic management solutions. There is a need to establish signal design standards taking in to account the latest trends in traffic signal ...

The total population had risen from 14.8 million tol8.7 million between 1981 and 2001 (last census data), and the population growth is reducing and comparatively small about 1.2% per year. More than population increases; ...

Pavement maintenance management systems are to be developed for the urban road networks for low to medium size cities in India. The study shows the results of progression of roughness of a major secondary road of a Patiala ...

Hot mix asphalt concrete (HMA) is being widely used to construct flexible pavements. The HMA technology requires temperature in range of 150 to 190"C, which could cause many environmental and health issues. Moreover, ...

Road user charging (RUC) has a long history as a mechanism to recover infrastructure maintenance and capital costs. The range of fees and charges include: import taxes, fees, registration, stamp duty, direct toll charges, ...

Hydroplaning occurs when water pressure builds up in front of and under a moving vehicle tire resulting in an uplift force sufficient to separate the tire from the pavement. The loss of steering and the drag force produced ...