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The Best Reference for Roadway Profiling has been updated!



Hot off the press! The University of Michigan Transportation Institute has published the 2nd edition of The Little Book of Profiling. 

 

The book, first issued in the 1990s, offers basic information about measuring and interpreting road profiles and serves as a guide for understanding how road roughness is measured and how that data can be used to assess road quality and rideability. This invaluable resource has been educating highway agency staff and researchers, profiling equipment manufacturers, highway construction contractors and consultants for decades on the principles of longitudinal road profile measurement and interpretation. The book explores the different types of road profiling including high-speed profiling techniques and discusses how to interpret the data obtained from these measurements. 


With its recent updates by Dr. Steven M. Karamihas and Dr. Michael W. Sayers, the 2nd edition addresses changes to the state of practice since the 1990s, which include:

 

·    Increased application of road profilers for construction quality assurance

·    Increased use of road profilers to measure urban and low-speed roadways

·    Improvements to profile measurement technology

·    Better understandings of measurement errors

Adoption of new measurement and analysis standards




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