Conf. Paper (EUPAVE)

Public lighting contributes to the safety and quality of life in urban areas and, like all services, is confronted with the challenge of “doing better with less.” Closer ties between the trades of the road and lighting offer proven opportunities for significant economic and environmental gains once steps are taken...

Road tunnels and railway tunnels generally, located in sensitive sites, must not be considered simply as an extension of standard open-air sections. For the road tunnels, the thickness of the structure, its future maintenance and the consequences on traffic, as also the effect on lighting of pavement lightness have to...

This paper presents a structural, functional and economic evaluation model for Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP). The model was implemented by using a computer program developed by the authors at the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering of University of Rome “La Sapienza”. This paper will describe this versatile,...

From both an environmental and economic point of view, the availability and performance capability of infrastructure traffic areas today and in the future is of the highest priority. This applies to both public and private roads and air traffic areas, as well as for busy parking and logistics areas and...

Skanska a.s. is one of the leading construction companies, who successfully execute concrete pavement projects in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland mostly on motorways and airports. To achieve the best quality, durability and cost-efficiency, it is needed to put an effort to research and development. Recently experts from Skanska are leading...

The use of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) is enjoying a renaissance in the United States (USA). CRCP has the potential to provide a long-term, “zero-maintenance,” service life under heavy traffic loadings and challenging environmental conditions, provided proper design and quality construction practices are utilized. In the USA, the Federal...

We attempt to present the management of concrete pavements made by Aumar on motorways which is the concessionaire: data collection and its management, application of their model of pavement, performance of this one, repairs and rehabilitation.

This paper reports about the results of test sections on a concrete cycle track, where natural aggregates were replaced by selected crushed concrete. The test sections were built in 2006 and monitored directly after the winter periods. In the three tested concrete mixes respectively 50% and 100% of the course...

More and more importance is attached to the quality of the road surface, especially by the road users who want to drive on safe and comfortable roads. Concrete pavements often suffer from bad image due to the fact they are very old and have been designed according to other criteria...

The need for optimizing preservation and rehabilitation strategies used to maintain highway concrete and asphalt pavements has never been greater, given the current difficult economical outlook faced by highway agencies. Conventional bonded and unbonded concrete overlays have a long history of successful use to preserve and rehabilitate concrete and asphalt...

In Switzerland concrete pavements for roundabouts are considered a suitable and cost effective and above all a durable solution. The service life is estimated to be 40 to 50 years, what can only be achieved by concrete pavements.

The Sinard tunnel (length 980 metres), located South of Grenoble, is one of the few in France to have a concrete pavement. Once the tunnel was opened to traffic, in 2007, a campaign of photometric measurements was initiated to follow the evolution of photometric characteristics of the concrete pavement with...