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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Measuring, Characterizing, and Reporting Pavement Roughness of Low-Speed and Urban Roads. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25563.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Measuring, Characterizing, and Reporting Pavement Roughness of Low-Speed and Urban Roads. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25563.
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78 A/D Analog-to-Digital AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials AC Asphalt Concrete CAN Controller Area Network CORS Continuously Operating Reference Stations CPU Central Processing Unit DAS Data Acquisition System DOT Department of Transportation DUA Data Use Agreement FHWA Federal Highway Administration GCARS Golden Car Average Rectified Slope GCARV Golden Car Average Rectified Velocity GCRMSA Golden Car Root Mean Square Acceleration GCRMSS Golden Car Root Mean Square Slope GCRMSV Golden Car Root Mean Square Velocity GPS Global Positioning System HPMS Highway Performance Monitoring System IMU Inertial Measurement Unit INS Inertial Navigation System IRI International Roughness Index ISO International Organization for Standardization LTPP Long-Term Pavement Performance MEMS Microelectromechanical MRI Mean Roughness Index MTV Maximum Transient Vibration NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement NHPP National Highway Performance Program NHS National Highway System NTRIP Network Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol OVT Overall Vibration Total PCC Portland Cement Concrete PTRN Pre-transform Ride Number PVT Point Vibration Total RARV Reference Average Rectified Velocity RMQ Root Mean Quad RMS Root Mean Squared RN Ride Number Acronyms

79 RTCM Radio Technical Commission for Maritime RTK Real Time Kinematic SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SPS Specific Pavement Studies SUV Sport Utility Vehicle UMTRI University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

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Pavement smoothness (or roughness) is used by state highway agencies for monitoring network condition and other purposes such as assessing construction quality and optimizing investments in preservation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

States are also required to report the International Roughness Index (IRI) as an element of the federal Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS). Because IRI is not measured directly but is calculated as the mechanical response of a generic quarter-car, traveling at 50 mph, to the elevation profile of the roadway, there are concerns about using current practices for estimating roughness of low-speed and urban roads

Because of the unique features of low-speed and urban roads, research was needed to identify or, if necessary, develop means for appropriately measuring, characterizing and reporting pavement roughness of these roads.

National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 914: Measuring, Characterizing, and Reporting Pavement Roughness of Low-Speed and Urban Roads reviews the practices for roughness measurement and the unique features of urban and low-speed roadways, and it evaluates the use of existing inertial profilers for such measurements.

The report also proposes revisions to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials standard specifications and practices addressing inertial profiler certification and operations.

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