Study of Georgia’s pavement deterioration/life and potential risks of delayed pavement resurfacing and rehabilitation : final report.

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• Alternative Title:
  Georgia DOT research project 14-05 : study of Georgia's pavement deterioration/life and potential risks of delayed pavement resurfacing and rehabilitation : final report.
• Creators:
  Tsai, Yichang (James) ; Wu, Yi-Ching
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  Georgia. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Research ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Condition surveys
  • Delays
  • Deterioration
  • Pavement performance
  • Pavements
  • Rehabilitation (Maintenance)
  • Resurfacing
  • Service life Pavement life
  • service interval
  • delay
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-GA-16-1405;PR 14-05
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Georgia
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Georgia. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Research
• Abstract:
  Georgia has continuously been rated as one of the states with the smoothest pavements in the United States ; because the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has established a standardized pavement condition ; evaluation system (PACES) for consistent annual pavement performance monitoring. GDOT also established an ; active, data-driven annual pavement preservation program that determines pavement preservation methods (i.e., ; treatment criteria), prioritization of the projects (e.g., rating, AADT, etc.), and allocation of the maintenance and ; rehabilitation funding, using PACES data. This rich pavement performance data from FY 1986 to FY 2014 is ; extremely valuable because they reveal the actual pavement performance in Georgia. This project is: 1) to study ; the actual pavement performance of GDOT’s in-service pavements using 28-year of pavement condition ; evaluation data; 2) to study the pavement resurfacing delay situation; and 3) to study the impact of pavement ; resurfacing delay with a special focus on the pavement resurfacing effectiveness/life and the increases in ; construction and user costs. Two types of pavement service interval were studied in this project: “Pavement ; Resurfacing Interval,” which represents the time period between two consecutive resurfacing activities, and ; “Pavement 70 Interval,” which represents the time period to reach a rating of 70 that can be used for a consistent ; performance comparison. After extensive data screening and processing, a total of 370 resurfacing cycles with ; high-quality data were selected for analysis. The pavement resurfacing interval and pavement 70 interval is 11.6 ; and 10.3 years, respectively. Study of selected resurfacing cycles with high traffic volume shows the resurfacing ; effectiveness (Pavement 70 Interval) decreases more than 10% (1 year) at every 5-point drop of COPACES rating ; when resurfacing is conducted at a rating less than 70. Results indicate the resurfacing delay has significant ; negative impact on resurfacing effectiveness. More data, especially projects with different traffic volumes, are ; needed to study the consequence of delayed resurfacing.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31346/dot_31346_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.87 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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