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- Decision Support
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- Information & Intelligence
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Capabilities | Pavement Engineering

Highway Interchange
ARA's pavement engineering services include:
- Research
- Design and Evaluation
- Pavement Testing
- Digital Image Data Collection
- Pavement Management Systems
When it comes to construction quality assurance, ARA is in its third decade of providing pavement engineering services for roadways, airfields, parking areas, and intermodal facilities. We serve hundreds of municipal, state, federal, military, and private organizations worldwide.
ARA staff members are recognized internationally for their expertise in pavement performance modeling, pavement evaluation, mechanistic-empirical pavement design, paving materials, mix design, and life cycle cost analysis. Our research and training projects keep us at the cutting edge of technology, and our consulting efforts keep us in touch with real-world concerns.
Pavement Engineering Support for the Florida DOT
- Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) testing
- Able to collect longitudinal and transverse profile data using a high-speed profiler
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) testing
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Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG)
- Developed under a series of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) studies
- Designed to employ mechanistic-empirical approaches that provide a more realistic characterization of in-service pavements
- Provides uniform guidelines for designing flexible, rigid and composite pavements
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Rolling Wheel Deflectometer
- Measures pavement deflection applied by an actual, moving semi-trailer wheel load
- Records a continuous deflection profile
- Operates at normal highway speeds
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California On-Call Rigid Pavement Materials and Structural Concrete Services
- Concrete and cement-related impacts on greenhouse gases
- Use of cement replacement and supplemental cementitious materials
- Materials-related technical support for the construction of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
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Illinois Tollway Pavement Management
- Business-oriented approach to managing pavement assets
- Well-founded pavement maintenance and rehabilitation plans that can be readily communicated to senior management and the traveling public
- Systematic process for preserving the pavement network
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Infrastructure Management Services for the Washington, DC, DOT
- Catalog of recommended pavement design features
- Procedures for determining load carrying capacity
- Life cycle cost analysis procedure in pavement design
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To submit your inquiries about our infrastructure services, e-mail infrastructure@ara.com.
