Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
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|ISSN:2573-5438|Priority:Quarterly|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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YOLO-SFT: Road Damage Detection Algorithm Based on Feature Diffusion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pavement damage detection is an important research area in road maintenance and traffic safety, but traditional detection methods have shortcomings such as low accuracy and poor real-time performance. A pavement damage ... -
Mechanistic-Empirical Design for Rubblized Pavements in Michigan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pavement mechanistic-empirical design (PMED) is a modern approach to designing new and rehabilitated pavements. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) follows the current guideline methodology for rehabilitation ... -
Forward Simulation of GPR Detection for Irregular Concealed Distresses of Road Pavement Based on the FDTD Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Detecting concealed pavement distresses by ground penetrating radar (GPR) has become popular. However, inner distresses develop irregularly, leading to the uncertainty of the feature in B-scan images. Meanwhile, the ... -
Accuracy of Pavement ME Methodology in Predicting Strain Responses under Multiple Axle Loadings in Flexible Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The mechanistic-empirical pavement design method (Pavement ME) uses linear-elastic analysis to calculate the strain responses induced by single and multiple axle loadings, and the method relies on the concept of equivalent ... -
Study of the Shrinkage and Freeze–Thaw Performance of Cement-Stabilized Macadam Mixtures Based on Rotary Compaction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In this study, static compaction and gyratory compaction were used to prepare cement-stabilized macadam (CSM) specimens, and their drying shrinkage and freeze–thaw resistance were investigated. The effects of gradation ... -
Enhancing Road Surface Temperature Prediction: A Novel Approach Integrating Transfer Learning with Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Timely and accurate prediction of winter road surface temperature is crucial for the effective operation of a road weather information system (RWIS), which is essential to road traffic safety. A major challenge in achieving ... -
Designing Stone-Matrix Asphalt to Optimize Sustainability Using Limestone, Dolomite, and Crushed Gravel Aggregates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Stone-matrix asphalt (SMA) relies on stone-on-stone contact of coarse aggregate (CA) to generate a load carrying structure or an aggregate skeleton that minimizes flexible pavement rutting potential. Local CA may require ... -
An Innovative Pavement Performance Prediction Method Based on Few-Shot Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pavement deterioration is a critical road maintenance issue, particularly in countries such as China, which has a vast road network. In the coming decades, many countries will need to address a significant number of road ... -
Numerical Prediction of Water Film Thickness on Pavement during Rainfall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The purpose of this study is to develop a finite volume model to predict the water film thickness on a road pavement during rainfall. Raindrops are treated as dispersed spherical particles in a continuous gas phase of air. ... -
A Study on Deformation Behavior of a Subbase Layer Mixed with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement under Repetitive Wheel Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study deals with the behavior of the aggregate subbase mixed with reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) material. A comprehensive investigation of a standardized well-graded unbound subbase laid over a subgrade of California ... -
Advanced Hybrid CNN-GRU Model for IRI Prediction in Flexible Asphalt Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The international roughness index (IRI) is an important parameter for road surface roughness assessment, which is crucial for road safety. This study developed a road roughness prediction model for predicting the IRI of ... -
Intelligent Detection of Sealed Crack with 2D Asphalt Pavement Images
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accurately identifying sealed cracks on asphalt pavement surfaces is of significant importance to pavement management. This paper proposes an efficient semantic segmentation model called Parallel-TDNet for pixel-level ... -
Drones for Road Condition Monitoring: Applications and Benefits
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This systematic literature review (SLR) explores the increasing use of drones in road condition monitoring (D-RCM), a development poised to enhance inspection efficiency and reduce costs. Surveying 60 articles from a pool ... -
Impact of Wide-Base Tire on Flexible Pavement Responses: Coupling Effects of Multiaxle and Dynamic Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Wide-base tires (WBTs) have been gradually adopted for trucks to improve fuel economy and driving comfort. This study aims to investigate the impact of WBTs on flexible pavement responses as compared to dual tires (DTs) ... -
Multivariate Life Cycle Cost Analysis Related to Fatigue Cracking in Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements Subjected to Superloads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A recent trend in pursuing high transportation efficiency has resulted in a significant change in the size and capacity of superloads, as well as variation in the size and capacity of implements of husbandry and superheavy ... -
Evaluating Full-Scale Electrically Conductive Concrete Heated-Pavement Systems to Identify Key Design Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although electrically conductive concrete (ECON) heated-pavement system (HPS) is a promising alternative to traditional snow-removal methods, the lack of design guidelines for future ECON projects hinders their widespread ... -
Study of Aging Asphalt Recovery Using Peanut Oil Residue as a Biomass Regenerator
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The properties of reclaimed asphalt were studied using peanut oil residue (POR) as a regenerant. The preparation, chemical composition, and rheological properties of POR regenerant were studied. GC-MS and FITR studies of ... -
Air Temperature Prediction Models for Pavements Based on the Gene Expression Programming Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As per the performance grading scheme, the selection of asphalt binder for a particular location requires information on seven-day maximum and one-day minimum pavement temperatures. Pavement surface temperatures are usually ... -
Robust Random Forest Model for Faulting Prediction in Jointed Concrete Pavement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A simple but robust faulting prediction model is essential for jointed concrete pavement design and timely maintenance and rehabilitation activities placement. This study utilized machine learning algorithms, including ... -
Hydroplaning Effects of Tread Patterns of Motorcycle Tires
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Hydroplaning is a critical phenomenon affecting motorcycles navigating wet roads at high speeds. Insufficient tire performance in resisting hydroplaning leads to motorcycle accidents and rider injuries. The tread patterns ...