Users’ Manual and Guides for the M-E Traffic Database (T-DSS)

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Develop System To Render Mechanistic-Empirical Traffic Data for Pavement Design [Project Title from Cover]
• Creators:
  Walubita, Lubinda F. ; Aldo, Aldo ; Djebou, Clement ; Lee, Sang Ick
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Computer Program Documentation Data Storage Manuals Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Traffic Data Vehicle Classification Weigh In Motion
• Publication/ Report Number:
  0-6940-P2
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  This user’s manual aids users to understand and use the mechanistic-empirical (M-E) traffic data storage system (the T-DSS). The T-DSS is a Microsoft Access data storage system containing the essential outcomes of the project 0-6940 entitled “Develop System to Render Mechanistic Empirical Traffic Data for Pavement Design.” As a supporting material, this user’s manual presents and describes the following points: (1) Overall structure and data organization frame in the T-DSS. (2) Data stored in the T-DSS, including units, values, and specific comments useful to users. (3) The T-DSS interfaces including the layout formats. (4) Tables under each interface to ease data retrieval from T-DSS. The data and attachment files in the T-DSS can also be exported or downloaded for use in M-E pavement design. Especially, the manual emphasizes the retrieval of inputs data needed for M-E models and the related software, including the flexible pavement design system (FPS), the Texas mechanistic-empirical (TxME), the Texas asphalt concrete overlay design and analysis system (TxACOL), the AASHTOWare Pavement M-E Design, and the mechanistic empirical pavement design guide (M-E PDG). (5) Guidance on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) vehicle classification and the FHWA weight classification for different categories of axles including single, tandem, tridem, and quadrem. (6) A map of the Texas weigh-in-motion (WIM) location and a summary of the geographic coordinates of the WIM sites as reported in the T-DSS.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-6940
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1999da4dadf605b02de87819a99a8cb1c30d8ec5068e31c3419c5ca3acd57a5f
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/63020/dot_63020_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.28 MB ]