Determination of Traffic Parameters for the Prediction, Projection, and Computation of EWL’s

Authors

John A. Deacon, University of Kentucky
Robert L. Lynch, Kentucky Department of Highways

Abstract

One of the first published methods for the structural design of highway pavements was called the Massachusetts Rule and was presented in the eighth annual report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission in 1901 (1). The essence of this procedure was a rather intuitive assumption concerning the distribution of vertical pressures beneath a loaded area. For design purposes, this required the selection of a design load which, since failure was assumed to be catastrophic and not cumulative, could be taken as the largest load that could reasonably be anticipated during the design life of the pavement. The prediction of such a design load was in itself a rather formidable task.

Report Date

8-1968

Report Number

No. 259

Digital Object Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.13023/KTC.RR.1968.259

Notes

The opinions, findings, and conclusions in this report are not necessarily those of the Department of Highways or the Bureau of Public Roads.

Repository Citation

Deacon, John A. and Lynch, Robert L., "Determination of Traffic Parameters for the Prediction, Projection, and Computation of EWL’s" (1968). Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report. 1003.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ktc_researchreports/1003