Guidelines for Ride Quality Acceptance of Pavements. Final Report

摘要

An intent of this project is to assist State Highway Agencies (SHAs) in NewEngland in resolving issues and questions associated with the design and use of an initial ride quality specification. To this end, a literature synthesis was conducted to review such issues and questions surrounding the use of current paving practices and the application of different ride quality parameters, measuring devices, and bonus and penalty schedules. In addition, a survey of current ride quality and paving practices of SHAs in New England and in several other states was performed and a field study to examine the ride quality measuring devices being used in New England was also carried out. Finally, a product of this project is a proposed ride quality specification for SHAs in New England. It must be stressed that this proposed specification should be viewed only as a guide.