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Austroads Test Method: Summary for 2005/06
Austroads has produced a series of test methods developed from various technical projects, principally in the bituminous materials area (asphalt, binders, slurry and sprayed seals). The Austroads system of managing the test methods has enabled…
The use and application of microsimulation traffic models
Microsimulation traffic models (MSTMs) have in recent years become accepted as useful tools amongst road and transport authorities to analyse and identify solutions for traffic and transport planning. The synergy between information technologies and…
Specification Framework for Polymer Modified Binders and Multigrade Bitumens
This Specification Framework for Polymer Modified Binders (PMBs) and Multigrade Bitumens has been produced by an Austroads Project Group. The specification is based on a set of test procedures that have been in use throughout Australia for several…
Binder Production and Specification: Information from a South African Workshop
A residential workshop on quality management in Durban, South Africa covered a number of subjects including refinery processes, bitumen and PMB manufacture, overseas trends in bitumen and PMB specifications, test methods, global quality management…
Improved Distress Viscosity Model for Reseal Intervention
An existing model predicted binder life by combining a binder hardening (increase in viscosity) model and a distress viscosity model. Inputs for the two models were site temperature parameters, binder durability (resistance to hardening) and seal…
Economic Evaluation of Road Investment Proposals: Overtaking Lanes - An International Review
This report describes the results of a review of international literature undertaken in 2002 on the evaluation and application of intermittent overtaking lanes on two-way roads in rural traffic environments. This report also contains a comprehensive…