Long-Term Pavement Performance Pavement Loading User Guide (LTPP PLUG)
By: authors, O.I. Selezneva and M. Hallenbeck
Contributors: Hallenbeck, Mark E., author; Applied Research Associates; Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center; United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Research, Development, and Technology, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Published: 2013
Place of publication: McLean, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Pavements; Performance; Testing; Computer programs; Motor vehicles; Weight; Long-Term Pavement Performance Program (U.S.)
Other titles: LTPP PLUG
Description: This guide addresses the selection and use of axle loading defaults for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design  Guide (MEPDG) applications. The defaults were developed based on weigh-in-motion (WIM) data from the Long-  Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Special Pavement Study (SPS) Transportation Pooled Fund Study (TPF). The  guide consists of two parts. The first part provides guidelines for selecting and using LTPP SPS TPF axle loading  defaults with the MEPDG and DARWin-ME software. These defaults provide a source of axle loading information  for pavement analysis for locations where site-specific axle load spectra are not available. The second part of the  guide provides practical guidelines that States and LTPP can use to generate additional MEPDG traffic loading  defaults based on their own WIM data or for specific analysis purposes. In addition, this guide contains an  operator's manual that supports the use of the LTPP PLUG software. This software helps users select site-specific  or default axle loading conditions from its traffic loading library and produces axle load distribution input files for  use with the MEPDG or DARWin-ME software. The software can be used to store, view, and group multiple  normalized axle load spectra (NALS) and to develop MEPDG inputs and defaults using agency-provided data.
Notes: Cover title.

"Contracting officer's technical representative (COTR): Larry Wiser, HRDI LTPP Data Analysis Contract".

"October 2013."

Format not distributed to depository libraries.

"Performing organization, Applied Research Associates, Inc."--Technical report documentation page.

"Publication No. FHWA-HRT-13-089."

"HRDI-30/10-13(500)E"--Page [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 89).

Guide.

Also available online.

Sponsored by Office of Infrastructure Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration DTFH61-02-C-00138