This paper provides the status of two ongoing nondestructive testing (NDT) programs by the FAA: (1) PAVEAIR a web-based Airport Pavement Management System and (2) research subjective responses of pilots to vibrations induced by airport pavement roughness using a Boeing simulator. By 2011, the FAA is scheduled to complete a three-year effort to create an internet-based computer program for airport pavement evaluation and management. This PAVEAIR program, while using existing pavement evaluation databases, will provide a pavement evaluation and management web-based application that is also functional on stand-alone personal computers by running a local web server such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). The program will have the equivalent functionality of MicroPAVER version 5.3. Initially, the program will be designed to function in Internet Explorer web browser version 6.0 and above. The program will support simultaneous entry of inspection data into the system by multiple users. The FAA envisions an implementation of PAVEAIR containing data for FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP) projects residing on a server located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, New Jersey. It is expected that PAVEAIR will be distributed for implementation by other interested agencies or users. In 2008, the William J. Hughes Technical Center, in conjunction with Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC), participated in a cockpit ride quality study using a full-motion Boeing B-737-800 airplane simulator. The initial phase of the project will verify that actual pavement profile data can be entered into the simulator software and accurately simulate the airplane responses excited by the pavement profiles. This simulation, where feasible, would use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) requirements for the evaluation of human exposure to mechanical vibration and shock. The second phase will rate the known values of the profiles with the ride that the pilots, flight crew, and passengers would experience. This would be accomplished in coordination with Human Factors specialists who would design the questionnaires and test methodologies to best capture the data. Finally, these results would be analyzed to establish the link between various airport pavement roughness indexes and the corresponding experience in the cockpit. This project is expected to establish well-defined criteria for rating the ride quality of airport pavements and to provide the ride quality component of pavement management procedures for airports.


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    Titel :

    Federal aviation administration airport pavement management and airport pavement roughness evaluation


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Flughafen-Fahrbahndecke Management und Rauigkeitsbewertung durch die US-Luftfahrtaufsichtsbehörde


    Beteiligte:


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009


    Format / Umfang :

    5 Seiten, 4 Quellen


    Anmerkungen:

    (nicht paginiert)


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Datenträger


    Sprache :

    Englisch