Evaluation of Lightweight Non-Contact Profilers for Use in Quality Assurance Specifications on Pavement Smoothness

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• Creators:
  Larsen, Donald A.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Profilometers
  • Surface course (Pavements)
  • Field tests
  • Specifications
  • Quality assurance
  • Automatic Road Analyzers (ARAN)
  • Connecticut
  • Pavement roughness
  • Pavement smoothness
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Final Report ,Report No. 2225-1-99-8,
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Connecticut ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Connecticut. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Various devices that qualify as lightweight profilers were evaluated as part of a Federal Highway Administration cooperative partnership with nine states. Connecticut offered the opportunity to seven companies to showcase their equipment. Five vendors accepted this offer, four golf-cart type devices and one hitch mounted device were evaluated. In addition, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) ran its two ARAN vehicles and an ARRB TR Walking Profiler over three test sections used for the study. All data were collected between July 7 and October 19, 1999. This report summarizes the data collection and analysis efforts. An analysis of repeatability (precision) is included. Comparisons of the lightweight profilers with the ConnDOT ARAN and the Walking Profiler are also made. 133p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14124/dot_14124_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.47 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aab2d06df091beef8dff9063718c1eb60a667748d4d8b3797012c1a5cf2d7f6d8453651b367ce6fb4d3af5bec22fa9a18cfba88ca27d16ab3e4465febb2036d7