Aashto
Aashto
AASHTO
VOLUME 2
2002
N ew Ti t l e s f r o m A A S H TO
2 AASHTO Reference Book, 2002
3 Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials
and Testing, 22nd Edition—“The Materials Book”
3 AASHTO Provisional Standards, April 2002 Edition
4 AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications,
2nd Edition—2002 Interim Revisions
5 AASHTO LRFD Bridge Construction Specifications—
2002 Interim Revisions
5 AASHTO LRFD Movable Highway Bridge Design
Specifications, 1st Edition—2002 Interim Revisions
5 Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges and
All Current Interim Specifications
7 Bridge Welding Code: AASHTO/AWS-D1.5M/ D1.5:
2002 An American National Standard
7 AASHTO Guide Specifications for Horizontally
Curved Steel Girder Highway Bridges
9 2002 Interim to Standard Specifications for
Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires
and Traffic Signals, 4th Edition
9 2002 Interim to the AASHTO Guide for Commonly
Recognized (CoRe) Structural Element
10 Roadside Design Guide, 3rd Edition
10 Guidelines for Geometric Design of Very
Low-Volume Local Roads (ADT≤ 400)
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MATERIALS
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Guide for the Design of AASHTO Guidelines AASHTO Guidelines for
Park-and-Ride Facilities for Traffic Data Programs Preconstruction Engineering
Specific planning and design Provides a reference for professional Management
guidance for implementing park-and- traffic monitoring and establishes a Developed to assist in attaining the
ride facilities to encourage use of process for adoption of national traffic highest levels of operational and
existing transportation systems. The monitoring standards. While the organizational efficiency in the
guide also offers specifics related to guidelines specifically address concerns accomplishment of each state’s
the facilities of a ride-sharing of state transportation agencies, they transportation program goals and
program. 1992. Paperback. 96 pp. may be adopted by other govern- objectives. Promotes a systematic
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DESIGN:
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Guide Specifications for Guidance on Sharing Freeway A Policy on the
Highway Construction and Highway Rights-of-Way for Accommodation
This eighth edition, updated with SI Telecommunications of Utilities Within Freeway
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Flexible and Rigid Pavements, Prepared by Apogee Research, Inc., the right-of-way of any portion of a
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AASHTO–AGC–ARTBA
ASPHALT
These publications were prepared and approved by the American Association of State
Report on Cold Recycling
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TASK FORCE 38 REPORT the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (AASHTO–AGC–ARTBA).
This report contains information on
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selection and assessment, cold recycled
mixture and pavement structural Guide Specifications for Manual for Corrosion
design, quality control and testing, Polymer Concrete Bridge Protection of Concrete
guidelines for construction Deck Overlays Components in Bridges
specifications, and definitions of TASK FORCE 34 REPORT TASK FORCE 32 REPORT
terms. 1998. Paperback. 48 pp. Discusses a variety of topics related Addresses the numerous systems
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AASHTO Members $20 polymer concrete overlays, slurry Use of this manual should ensure
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Polymer Modified Asphalt 1995. Paperback. 72 pp. will deteriorate to an unacceptable
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Describes three types of polymer Price per copy $25 1992. Paperback. 224 pp.
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formance. 1992. Paperback. 24 pp. Cathodic Protection of
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CONCRETE and underground structures
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The Use and State-of-the-
Practice of Fiber Reinforced
technologies which would allow the
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Committee, this guide supersedes the
1996 edition. It is intended to
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decks. 1994. Paperback. 50 pp.
provide guidance for users and
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Highway Design and Guide for Selecting, Locating, A Policy on Design of Urban
Operational Practices Related and Designing Traffic Barriers, Highways and Arterial Streets,
to Highway Safety, 1974 1977 1973
Commonly known as the “Yellow Replaced in 1989 by the Roadside The AASHTO “Red Book” was the
Book,” this title was replaced by The Design Guide. Casebound. 322 pp. principal reference for geometric
Highway Safety Design and Opera- ITEM No. G-GTB-1 design standards for "high-type"
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