In 1986 the Federal Highway Administration recommended that the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) update its pavement skid resistance program to meet the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Highway Program Manual. In response to this recommendation, the task of inventorying the skid resistance of Alaska's paved highways was assigned to the DOT&PF's Statewide Research Section. The inventory results indicated that most Alaskan highways have good average skid numbers although all Alaskan highways have some specific locations which have low skid numbers. The inventory sampled approximately 85% of Alaska's paved highways.
From April 1982 through October 1983 surface temperatures were measured on seven asphalt concrete pavement test sections in Fairbanks. The seven test ...
In 1994, a ramp containing two Asphalt Concrete (AC) and two portland cement concrete (PCC) sections in the SPS-8 experiment was constructed on the Oh...
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