Abstract. Road infrastructures are simultaneously the causes and consequences of socio-economic development of any country. They have crucial importance in operation of the economy, because they stablish the necessary movement of people and goods in a quick, safe, and effective way when they are in a good condition. The decrease in the quality of road pavements is due to the evolution and...
Abstract. Street pavements are subject to various types of distress which necessitate a cost-effective management approach. This paper pre-sents the outcomes of a survey focusing on street pavement maintenance and the utilization of machine learning (ML) pavement performance models on a 320 km municipal street network in Skellefteå municipali-ty, Sweden. The findings reveal that the most...
Abstract. Transportation agencies are increasingly faced with the challenges of maintaining an aging infrastructure with constrained budgets. Fundamental to that challenge, is the ability to efficiently and effectively establish the condition of road pavements. Recognizing that roads currently make up such a large portion of an agencies transportation system, being able to quickly and...
Abstract. With the increased number and type of waste collection vehicles using local pavement networks, agencies are interested in implementing vehicle impact fees to recoup costs associated with pavement damage caused by such vehicles. The purpose of this study was to estimate the service life and financial impacts of waste vehicles on local pavements for two contrasting California agencies....
