For Construction Pros

Caltrans Unveils Certification Site in California for Inertial Profilers

Caltrans has announced the opening of California's first certification and calibration site for inertial profiler devices and technicians, part of the department's move to update its pavement ...
For Construction Pros

Caltrans Moves to Inertial Profiler to Measure Pavement Smoothness

The State of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is changing the way that they are measuring smoothness. A new standard special provision (SSP) for smoothness was posted on the Caltrans ...
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Measuring, Characterizing, and Reporting Pavement Roughness of Low-Speed and Urban Roads

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Sacramento Bee

You’re paying for America’s smoothest roads. Can you tell?

Every time you pay more at California’s gas pumps to fill your tank, you’re feeling the price to fix the state’s roads. But are you feeling the improvement? California’s newly paved roads are built to ...