Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT), together with other state regulations have encouraged or mandated transit systems to use alternative fuels to power bus fleets. Among such fuels, compressed natural gas (CNG) is attractive, although it must be stored in robust, heavy pressurized cylinders, capable of withstanding pressures up to 5,000 psi...

USE OF REMOTELY SENSED PAVEMENT DATA FOR NEEDSASSESSMENT, PRIORITIZATION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION, ANDMAINTENANCE PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONZachary HansResearch [email protected] Omar SmadiPavement Management [email protected] for Transportation Research and Education, Iowa State University2901 S. Loop Drive, Suite 3100, Ames, Iowa 50010-86...

While Portland cement concrete (PCC) overlay has been increasingly used as a rehabilitation technique for deteriorated PCC pavements in the last decade, reflective cracking places a major limit on its durability performance. The use of ultra ductile concrete named Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) should arrest such failure mode and greatly enhance the long term performance of the overlai...

a r t i c l e i n f o Cold recycling technique represents the most environmental friendly solution for pavement rehabilitation nowadays. In fact, this technique allows the use of the highest percentage of reclaimed asphalt avoiding the energy consumption related to aggregates heating required by the traditional hot mix asphalt design. The mix design represents a key phase of the cold mix produc...

To facilitate decision making in the area of road maintenance, the Directorate of Roads in France decided five years ago to use AI techniques and to make an expert system called Erasme available to various government agencies. Erasme was developed with SMECI, a high-level expert system shell, and integrates innovative AI concepts. During June to November 1989, Erasme was submitted to 25 sites f...

Abstract Climate attributes such as precipitation, extreme temperature, and freeze-thaw cycles along with traffic loads cause pavement distresses. The maintenance need for pavements is decided based on the condition rating International Roughness Index (IRI). Generally, an IRI less than 2.68 m/km acceptable, a greater considered unacceptable classified “very poor” of pavement. It imperative to ...

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Use of recycled asphalt pavements (RA) in pavement rehabilitation processes is continuously growing as recycling techniques, such as cold recycling (CR), are being utilized in increasing magnitude. The focus of this paper is on developing a state of the art and state of the practice summary of processes used for classification of RA. A variety of topics were explored through an exhaustive liter...