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Deploy and Refine the Road Wear Modelling Methodologies: FAMLIT Final Report
  • Publication no: AP-R501-15
  • ISBN: 978-1-925294-88-0
  • Published: 3 December 2015

This report is the final technical document for the Deploy and refine the road wear modelling method(AT1734) project to provide an overview of the process of calculating the marginal cost of road pavement wear and the Freight Axle Mass Limits Investigation Tool (FAMLIT) software.

It details the final steps in the completion of the project, current status of the software, its capabilities and outlines some of the difficulties undergone through the development of FAMLIT.

  • Summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Project Development
    • 2.1. Project Work in 2014–15
    • 2.2. Project Work in 2013–14
  • 3. FAMLIT Overview
    • 3.1. Applicable Uses
      • 3.1.1. Pavement Life-cycle Costing (PLCC) Analysis
      • 3.1.2. Load-wear-cost (LWC) Analysis
    • 3.2. FAMLIT Inputs
      • 3.2.1. Road Network
      • 3.2.2. Road Condition Parameters
      • 3.2.3. Model Settings
      • 3.2.4. RD and WE Model Calibration
      • 3.2.5. Works Triggers
      • 3.2.6. Works Effects (WE)
      • 3.2.7. Works Cost
      • 3.2.8. Loading Information
      • 3.2.9. Pavement Types
  • 4. Marginal Cost of Road Wear
    • 4.1. Process
      • 4.1.1. Regression
      • 4.1.2. Marginal Cost
  • 5. Project Work
    • 5.1. Current Status of FAMLIT
    • 5.2. Finalising the ARRB-NTC FAMLIT
      • 5.2.1. Future Proposal
    • 5.3. Making FAMLIT Compilable
      • 5.3.1. Why?
      • 5.3.2. What is Required?
    • 5.4. Project Issues
  • 6. Guide to Asset Management (GAM) Impact Statement
    • 6.1. Austroads Strategic and Operational Plans
  • References
  • Appendix A Road Input Definitions
  • Appendix B RD and WE Models
  • B.1 Roughness
  • B.2 Strength
  • B.3 Works Effects (WE) Models
  • B.3.1 Roughness
  • B.3.2 Rutting
  • B.3.3 Pavement Strength (Overlay)
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