Open AccessMethodologies to Predict Service Lives of Pavement Marking Materials
Author(s) -
Yunlong Zhang,
Dongfeng Wu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the transportation research forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1046-1469
DOI - 10.5399/osu/jtrf.45.3.601
Subject(s) - engineering , transport engineering , deck , service life , service (business) , smoothing , forensic engineering , civil engineering , computer science , structural engineering , reliability engineering , economy , economics , computer vision
This study focuses on developing methodologies to predict the service life of a pavement marking material based on its retroreflectivity. Data from the 2002 National Transportation Product Evaluation Program (NTPEP) pavement marking material test deck in Mississippi are used for model development and model validation. The smoothing spline method and time series modeling are applied to estimate the service lives of different types of materials based on the assumption of a required minimum retroreflectivity value. The same models can also predict the retroreflectivity values at future times for a pavement marking product based on its retroreflectivity values in the past. The validation of the models shows satisfactory accuracy. As demonstrated in a case study, the predicted service lives of the marking materials can be used in life-cycle cost comparisons for selecting pavement marking material.