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Fatigue resistance of bituminous layers incorporating reclaimed asphalt pavement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
5th International Conference on Research & Practical Applications Using Wastes & Secondary Materials in Pavement Engineering, Liverpool, U. K., 22nd and 23rd February 2006This paper presents the results of an investigation into the fatigue performance of
Gibney, Amanda   +3 more
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Artificial neural network technique for prediction of pavement roughness as a performance indicator

open access: yesJournal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
One of the most important and widely accepted pavement performance and ride quality indicators is the International Roughness Index (IRI). This study investigates the combined effect of pavement distress on flexible pavement performance in two climate ...
Abdualmtalab Abdualaziz Ali   +3 more
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fully automated road imagery acquisition and pavement distress mapping from Google street view using vision-language models: proof of concept

open access: yesTransportation Engineering
This paper presents a fully automated workflow for road surface imagery acquisition and zero-shot distress mapping from Google Street View (GSV). In a single run, the system samples a user-defined area of interest, retrieves forward-looking lane images ...
Mohamad Alhalabi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preparing for the Next Transformation in Pavement Management

open access: yes, 2015
Since the initial development of a systems approach for managing pavements in the late 1970's and early 1980's, there have been tremendous changes in the way transportation agencies have designed, constructed, and managed their pavement networks. In just
Zimmerman, Kathryn A.
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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Pavement Management's Role in an Asset Management World

open access: yes, 2015
With the passage of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, commonly known as MAP-21, there has been increased focus and attention to asset management programs in transportation agencies and the development of risk-based asset management ...
Zimmerman, Kathryn A., Ram, Prashant V.
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How to Reduce Tire-Pavement Noise: Better Practices for Constructing and Texturing Concrete Pavement Surfaces, TPF-5(139), 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Concrete pavements can be designed and constructed to be as quiet as any other conventional pavement type in use today. This report provides an overview of how this can be done—and done consistently.

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