This research describes changes made to the FAA’s airport pavement roughness evaluation software ProFAA and to FAA AC 150/5380-9 Guidelines and Procedures for Measuring Airfield Pavement Roughness. Phase 1 developed a method to locate and quantify airport pavement roughness using profile data only. It is referred to as the multiple event roughness (MER) procedure. This presentation discusses phase 2 of this research and includes a demonstration of the updated ProFAA software and how it will work synergistically with related FAA advisory circulars to proactively maintain smooth airport pavements. The demonstration will include assessing a runway or taxiway in 500-ft sections, determine if corrective action is needed, and optimize the corrective action. The limits of acceptability for the MER process were developed empirically in phase 1 and have been embedded in ProFAA. The proactive pavement management approach will extend the life of the pavements and the aircraft that use them.


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    Title :

    Airport Pavement Roughness Evaluation: A New Approach


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Transportation and Development 2024 ; 2024 ; Atlanta, Georgia



    Publication date :

    2024-06-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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