Strategic Plan for Improved Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics July 2006 Completed in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, American Concrete Pavement Association, and other organizations Sponsored by Federal Highway Administration Cooperative Agreement DTFH61-01-X-00042 (Project 15) July 2006 National Concrete Pavement Technology Center 2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700 Ames, IA 50010 Contact: Paul Wiegand, P.E. 515-294-7082, [email protected] Strategic Plan for Improved Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration under Cooperative Agreement DTFH61-01-X-00042 (Project 15, Part 1, Task 3) Principal Investigator E. Thomas Cackler Director, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center, Iowa State University Co-Principal Investigators Theodore Ferragut Dale S. Harrington President, TDC Partners, Ltd. Principal Senior Engineer, Snyder & Associates Principal Project Engineer Robert Otto Rasmussen, Ph.D. Vice President and Chief Engineer, the Transtec Group, Inc. Project Manager Paul Wiegand Research Engineer, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center, Iowa State University Communications Services Mark Anderson-Wilk, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center Mina Shin, Iowa State University Federal Highway Administration Technical Representative Mark Swanlund National Concrete Pavement Technology Center Iowa State University 2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700 Ames, IA 50010 www.cptechcenter.org July 2006 About the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center The mission of the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center is to unite key transportation stakeholders around the central goal of advancing concrete pavement technology through research, tech transfer, and technology implementation. 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Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................1 1.1. Need for a Strategic Plan ....................................................................................................1 1.2. Plan Contents ......................................................................................................................1 1.3. Overview of the Overall Surface Characteristics Problem.................................................5 1.4. Strategic Plan Objectives and Considerations ....................................................................6 Surface Characteristics Research Gaps................................................................................6 Strategic Plan Objectives.....................................................................................................6 Plan Considerations .............................................................................................................7 1.5. Development of the Strategic Plan .....................................................................................8 1.6. Coordination and Accomplishment of the Plan................................................................11 Overview............................................................................................................................11 Management Principles......................................................................................................11 Management Structure.......................................................................................................11 Next Steps ..........................................................................................................................13 1.7. Anticipated Benefits .........................................................................................................13 2. RECENT AND NEW SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS RESEARCH ..................................15 3. SUBTRACKS AND PROBLEM STATEMENTS....................................................................20 3.1. Subtracks...........................................................................................................................20 Subtrack SC 1. Innovative and Improved Concrete Pavement Surfaces...........................20 Subtrack SC 2. Tire-Pavement Noise ................................................................................21 Subtrack SC 3. Concrete Pavement Texture and Friction .................................................21 Subtrack SC 4. Safety and Other Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics.................22 Subtrack SC 5. Concrete Pavement Profile Smoothness...................................................22 Problem Statement Schedule (10 years) ............................................................................22 Subtrack SC 6. Synthesis and Integration of Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics Research.............................................................................................................................23 Subtrack SC 7. Technology Transfer and Implementation of Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics Research....................................................................................................23 3.2. Problem Statements ..........................................................................................................23 SC 1.1. Framework for Innovative and Improved Concrete Pavement Surfaces ..............24 SC 1.2. Pervious Concrete Pavements to Provide Desired Surface Characteristics..........25 SC 1.3. Improvements to Concrete Pavement Texturing ..................................................26 SC 1.4. Improvements to Concrete Pavement Grinding and Grooving.............................27 SC 1.5. Exposed Aggregate Surfaces in Two-Course Concrete Paving............................28 SC 1.6. Precast Concrete Pavements to Provide Desired Surface Characteristics ............29 SC 1.7. Advancing Innovative Concrete Pavement Technologies for Desired Surface Characteristics....................................................................................................................30 SC 2.1. Framework for Tire-Pavement Noise ...................................................................31 SC 2.2. Relationship of Tire-Pavement Noise to Texture and Other Factors....................32 SC 2.3. Standardized Tire-Pavement Noise Measurement Method ..................................33 SC 2.4. Tire-Pavement Noise Thresholds..........................................................................35 SC 2.5. In-Vehicle Noise Measurement ............................................................................36 SC 2.6. Behind-the-Paver Tire-Pavement Noise Sensing Equipment...............................37 iii SC 3.1. Framework for Concrete Pavement Texture and Friction ....................................38 SC 3.2. Behind-the-Paver Pavement Texture Sensing Equipment....................................39 SC 3.3. Model to Relate and Integrate Concrete Pavement Texture and Friction.............40 SC 3.4. High-Speed 3D Macrotexture Measurement ........................................................41 SC 3.5. Multidimensional Friction Measurement Method ................................................42 SC 3.6. Automated, In Situ 3D Microtexture Measurement .............................................43 SC 3.7. High-Speed 3D Microtexture Measurement.........................................................44 SC 4.1. Framework for Safety and Other Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics ....45 SC 4.2. Splash and Spray...................................................................................................46 SC 4.3. Rolling Resistance Assessment.............................................................................47 SC 4.4. Reflectivity and Illuminance Assessment Equipment ..........................................48 SC 4.5. Relationship of Pavement Surface Characteristics to Vehicle Crashes................49 SC 4.6. Relationship of Pavement Texture to Tire and Vehicle Wear ..............................50 SC 5.1. Framework for Concrete Pavement Profile Smoothness ......................................51 SC 5.2. Design and Construction Guidelines to Improve Concrete Pavement Smoothness52 SC 5.3. High-Speed, High-Resolution 3D Pavement Profiling.........................................53 SC 5.4. Behind-the-Paver Smoothness Sensing Equipment..............................................54 SC 5.5. Next Generation Concrete Pavement Smoothness Standards...............................55 SC 6.1. Framework for Synthesis and Integration of Concrete Pavement Surface Characteristics Research....................................................................................................56