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Transportation Engineering Ii: Pavement Design Standards

This document discusses the importance of standards in transportation engineering and pavement design. It notes that standards lead to simplifying problems, raising quality, safety, reliability and efficiency. The document then outlines some of the major pavement design standards used around the world, including the British Standard developed by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and the American standard developed by AASHTO which is followed in the United States. The British Standard considers factors like traffic levels, design life, thickness of pavement layers while the American standard focuses more on ride quality metrics.

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Transportation Engineering Ii: Pavement Design Standards

This document discusses the importance of standards in transportation engineering and pavement design. It notes that standards lead to simplifying problems, raising quality, safety, reliability and efficiency. The document then outlines some of the major pavement design standards used around the world, including the British Standard developed by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and the American standard developed by AASHTO which is followed in the United States. The British Standard considers factors like traffic levels, design life, thickness of pavement layers while the American standard focuses more on ride quality metrics.

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TRANSPORTATION

ENGINEERING II
Pavement design standards

IMPORTANCE
In our daily life, we follow some
standards which are universally
acceptable.
This
leads
to
simplification of various unforeseen
problems that might be faced in
relevance.

We are usually unaware of the role


played by standards in raising Levels
of quality, Safety, Reliability and
Efficiency- As well as in providing
such benefits at an economical cost.

Standards make an enormous


contribution to most aspects of our
lives - although very often, that
contribution is invisible. For example,
as purchasers or users of products,
we soon notice when they turn out to
be of poor quality, do not fit, are
incompatible with equipment we
already have, are unreliable or
dangerous.

STANDARDS FOLLOWED
Different
standards
are
being
followed in the world by different
countries, suiting their environmental
conditions and other resources.
Following are the different standards.
British Standards
Transport and Road Research Laboratory
(TRRL) Road Note 31.

USA Standards
AASHTO (American Association of State
Highway & Transportation Officials).

BRITISH STANDARD
Factors involved in formulating
design suitable for a particular
situation are
Present Commercial Traffic
Growth rate of commercial traffic
Design life required
ESALs
Thicknesses of different pavement
layers

USA STANDARDS
AASHTO Guide for design is the
standard followed in USA.
The major difference in the USA and
British standard is the concept of
failure criterion. In British standards,
the failure conditions are deformation
and cracking where as in USA,
failure is defined in terms of quality of
ride, known as Present Serviceability
Index (PSI).

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