Speed Hump Effect On Pavement Condition (addis Ababa City Road Case Study)

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One of the traffic calming devices used in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is a speed hump due to lowrncost and ease of installation. However, these speed humps are randomly placed withoutrnproper engineering studies and justification. Due to this, speed fluctuations and the excessiverndecelerations and accelerations, before and after speed humps, over small distances andrninfiltration of water to the pavement surface. The pavement condition near to the speedrnhumps show failure and deterioration. rnThe research study was initiated to investigate the effect of speed humps on pavementrncondition and also to analyze the relationship between speed hump characteristics andrnpavement condition. The research methodology involved selecting representative samples ofrnroad segments that have at least one section with speed humps. For the selected sectionrnpavement condition and IRI data collected from AACRA. Road and speed humprncharacteristics data collected from site direct measurement. Collected data analyzed andrncompare the pavement condition of these sections with and without speed hump. Regressionrnanalysis models were developed to represent the relationships between pavement conditionsrnand hump characteristics. rnPothole and Raveling were the most widely observed distress at both sections with andrnwithout speed hump. But their frequency was higher on sections with speed humps.rnPavement condition index (PCI), in road sections with and without speed hump, wasrncalculated from the pavement condition data. The analysis showed that the presence of speedrnhumps significantly affected the pavement condition, reducing the PCI of the pavementrnsections by 34 PCI points and increase IRI value by 3.4 IRI points. The relation betweenrnspeed hump characteristics and pavement condition shows that the speed hump height andrndensity have a negative relation to pavement condition index value and the speed hump widthrnhas a positive relation with PCI value.

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