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 ...

In Mumbai, one of the major cities in India, the total number of accidents including fatal, serious, slight and minor road accidents has risen by 766 cases in 2015 as compared to the previous year. The year 2015 has ...

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, ...

Asphalt concrete is one the most widely used paving mix and its durability is a key issue with regaids to long term pavement performance. The Cantabro durability test is one of the most practical and implementable test ...

In practice, the task of designing the horizontal alignment of a highway is done manually based on experience and engineering judgement. As a result, the work is both time and resource consuming and relies heavily on ...

Social force model (SFM), a microscopic model, is an effective method in modeling pedestrian walking behavior. Social force model assumes that the walking behavior of pedestrian is influenced by a series of forces. ...