Heated Transportation Infrastructure Systems Existing and Emerging Technologies

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Ice and snow on pavement surfaces cost the U.S. national economy in snow removal, damaged pavement and lost man-hours due to travel delay. Common practices for removing ice and snow from pavement surfaces include spraying anti-ice chemicals on the ground and deploying snowplowing vehicles. These methods are labor-intensive, occasionally ineffective...

Texture and Noise Characteristics of Exposed Aggregate Concrete Road Surfaces

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Exposed aggregate cement concrete (EACC) road pavements are used on a large portion of the Austrian federal motorway network due to their durability and reduced noise emission. The standardized types with 8 and 11 mm chipping sizes have been characterized due to their noise emission and are subject to approval...

An Industry Perspective to Improve the Life Cycle Cost Analysis Procedure Used for Pavement Type Selection a Case Study for Alabama

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At the request of the cement and concrete industry, in 2012 the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) funded Auburn University and the University of Alabama to recommend updates to ALDOT’s Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) methods for comparing asphalt and concrete paving alternatives. Auburn was asked to address LCCA from...

Comparison of Two Rehabilitation Worksites of Motorways Single Versus Double Layered CRCP

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The technique of continuously reinforced concrete is used in Belgium for the construction or rehabilitation of heavily trafficked motorway sections. Since a few years, double layered CRCP is being considered in order to improve the rolling noise characteristics of the surface. In this paper, two worksites where CRCP was used,...

Concrete Pavements in the Czech Republic

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The paper resumes the development of the concrete roads in Czechoslovakia, resp. in the Czech Republic over the span of time between two major specialized events held in Prague, in particular the XIVth World Road Congress 1971 and the 12th International Symposium on Concrete Roads in 2014. The concrete pavements...

The New Balastless Track Project from Idea to 1km Prototype

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Within the frame of a French collaborative research program started in 2007, private companies, a public research laboratory and a rail network owner have jointly developed a new ballastless track structure (NBT) based on independent concrete slabs. This structure is dedicated to both very high speed operations and mixed passenger/freight...

Decision –Making Support Model for Sustainable Road Pavements

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The task of calculating road pavements is an easy one. However, reaching the point of choosing a type of pavement one is confronted with many possible solutions. They can all meet to the technical terms, such as bearing capacity, safety and durability. The growing importance of sustainable building has added...

Improvement of Pavement Concrete Properties Using Mineral Additives

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In this paper is given overview of mineral additives that are used to improve mechanical and durability properties of concrete used in concrete pavements. Use of mineral additives is possible in two different ways, as a cement additive during production and as a concrete additive during preparation. Mineral additives analyzed...

A Double-Layered CRCP Experiences on the E34 Near Antwerp (Belgium)

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The technique of double-layered concrete or two-lift paving is applied either to obtain a high-quality top layer, to use lower quality materials in the lower lift, or for both reasons at the same time. In Europe this technique is commonly applied in Austria where a typical motorway is built with...

Whitetopping – A Quick and Cheap Way to Resolve Rutting

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Congestion on German roads increases permanently from year to year. According to the latest prognosis an end to the traffic increase – especially with regard to heavy traffic – is not in sight. At the same time the Federal government, the German states and communities lack capital for new infrastructure...

Three Year Performance of Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement with Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bars

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The first continuous reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) using steel bars as reinforcement in Canada was constructed in the province of Québec in 2000. At that time, Project Engineers and experts tried to adapt the design of this type of concrete pavement used in other countries to the severe wet-freeze climate...

Modern Concrete Safety Barriers State of the Art 2010

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Since the beginning of the development of concrete vehicle restraint systems in the 1960s with the introduction of the New Jersey profile in the United States quite a lot of efforts have been taken by researchers, authorities and industry worldwide to raise effectiveness and safety of concrete and steel barriers....