Development of Pavement-Surface Temperature Predictive Models: Parametric Approach
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 28, Issue 3
Abstract
Rapid urbanization has been causing a change in the urban climate resulting in urban heat islands (UHIs). In the area of transportation pavement infrastructure and its effect on UHI, the impact of these changes can be reduced by using road materials that are low-temperature sensitive. Previous studies indicated that an increase in the impervious nature of urban grounds is one of the main causes of UHI, which is principally affected by pavement surface temperatures. Further, the associated predictive models focused on pavement temperature profiles along the depth of the system, discounting surface parameters such as solar flux and surrounding air temperature. This study established pavement-surface temperature models based on meteorological factors, which can be used to estimate heat energy flux from different pavement materials and systems. The models encompassed more than 670 data points, which were robust and represented low bias and very high precision (depicted by and ), and were found to be rational through a validation process undertaken using the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) climate database. The models were also used to estimate the heat energy flux released by various pavement systems and helped in the recommendation of a pavement-surface type that would be a suitable UHI mitigation strategy.
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and the Government of India for providing the necessary climatological data for seven locations in India for modeling purposes. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Higher Education for its financial support under the Future of Cities research project, grant number F. No. 4-22/2014-TS.I, dated January 23, 2014.
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Volume 28 • Issue 3 • March 2016
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Received: Mar 24, 2015
Accepted: Jun 30, 2015
Published online: Sep 9, 2015
Discussion open until: Feb 9, 2016
Published in print: Mar 1, 2016
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