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Updated Analysis of Michigan Traffic Inputs for Pavement-ME Design

Project Details
STATE

MI

SOURCE

TRID

START DATE

10/01/16

END DATE

08/31/18

RESEARCHERS

Syed Waqar Haider, Gopikrishna Musunuru, Neeraj Buch, Olga Selezneva, Praveen Desaraju, and Joshua Li

SPONSORS

Michigan Department of Transportation

KEYWORDS

Analysis, Flexible pavements, Pavement design, Pavement performance, Rigid pavements, Traffic data

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Project description

The purpose of this study is to characterize traffic inputs in support of the new Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide for the State of Michigan. These traffic characteristics include monthly adjustment factors (MAF), hourly distribution factors (HDF), vehicle class distributions (VCD), axle groups per vehicle (AGPV), and axle load distributions for different axle configurations. Weight and classification data were obtained from 41 Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) sites located throughout the State of Michigan to develop Level 1 (site-specific) traffic inputs.
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