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Publication Number:  FHWA-HRT-15-074     Date:  September 2016
Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-074
Date: September 2016

 

Pavement Structural Evaluation at the Network Level: Final Report

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The original maps shown in figure 22, figure 60, and figure 117 through figure 121 are the copyright property of Google Maps® and can be accessed from http://maps.google.com. The map in figure 22 contains overlays of nine sections that depict the location of tested routes. The map in figure 60 contains overlays of precision analysis results that depict the structural condition of LVR. The maps in figure 117 through figure 121 contain overlays of COVs of the deflection slopes that depict the precision of the first five TSD sensors in tested routes. The map overlays were developed as a result of this research project.

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