Evaluation Of AASHO Interim Guides For Design Of Pavement Structures
AASHO Interim Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (86) based on a review of the Interim Guides and recommendations for their revision reported herein. The Highway Research Board of the National Academy
of Sciences-National Research Council was requested by
the Association to administer the research program because
of the Board’s recognized objectivity and understanding of
modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited
for this purpose as: it maintains an extensive committee
structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state, and local
governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to its parent organization, the National Academy
of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution, is an insurance
of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation
staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to
bring the findings of research directly to those who are in
a position to use them. Evaluation Of AASHO
of Sciences-National Research Council was requested by
the Association to administer the research program because
of the Board’s recognized objectivity and understanding of
modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited
for this purpose as: it maintains an extensive committee
structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state, and local
governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to its parent organization, the National Academy
of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution, is an insurance
of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation
staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to
bring the findings of research directly to those who are in
a position to use them. Evaluation Of AASHO