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Introduction -- Types of equipment -- Technology descriptions -- A process for selecting equipment -- Best practices for equipment use -- Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications.
The objective of these AASHTO Guidelines is to improve the quality of the traffic information that supports decisions at all levels of the transportation profession. The Guidelines provide a reference for professional traffic monitoring and establish a process for adoption of national traffic nomitoring standards. They specifically address concerns of state transportation agencies.
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 683: Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design explores a set of protocols and methodologies for using available recent truck traffic data to develop and calibrate vehicular loads for superstructure design, fatigue design, deck design, and design for overload permits. The protocols are geared to address the collection, processing, and use of national weigh-in-motion (WIM) data. The report also gives practical examples of implementing these protocols with recent national WIM data drawn from states/sites around the country with different traffic exposures, load spectra, and truck configurations. The material in this report will be of immediate interest to bridge engineers. This report replaces NCHRP Web-Only Document 135: Protocols for Collecting and Using Traffic Data in Bridge Design. Appendices A through F for NCHRP Report 683 are available only online.
This synthesis will be of interest to traffic engineers, highway planners, and others concerned with the collection of traffic data for traffic engineering studies, for long-range planning, and for evaluation of traffic law enforcement. Information is presented on current practice in traffic data collection and analysis. Although types of highway traffic data collected over the past 50 years have not changed significantly, the quantities, analysis procedure, and presentations of these data have changed as a result of changing policies, operational concerns, and capabilities resulting from new technologies. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the technology (both hardware and software) that is being used for traffic data collection, and discusses technological advances that have not yet been applied to the acquisition and presentation of traffic data.
The GDOT is preparing for implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). As part of this preparation, a statewide traffic load spectra program is being developed for gathering truck axle loading data. This final report presents the results of a comprehensive research effort that culminated in recommendations for a statewide Traffic Load Spectra Program for collecting and processing truck axle loading data to support MEPDG implementation in Georgia. The recommendations include an optimal axle loading data collection plan that balances pavement design data needs, cost and number of WIM sites, and types of equipment used in obtaining the data. The report also shows how the available GDOT traffic data and other applicable data resources were used to develop traffic loading inputs and defaults to support local calibration of MEPDG models in Georgia. The available axle loading data were analyzed and the interim traffic loading defaults were developed for different groups of roads designed and maintained by GDOT, along with the recommendations for future updates of the defaults. In addition, user guidelines, decision trees, and software tools were developed to facilitate using the traffic loading defaults in MEPDG applications
This report provides a summary of the Strategic Highway Research Program's Long-Term Pavement Performance (SHRP-LTPP) 5-year effort to better understand traffic's effect on pavement performance. The report also reviews the traffic data collection program over a 4-year period. It provides a connection with the reports and publications issued during the period by providing an extensive reference list.