Pavement Interactive: Pavement Knowledge Transfer with Web 2.0
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 12
Abstract
Pavement Interactive (http://pavementinteractive.org) is an ongoing experiment in coupling a participatory web application with a unique data set to improve transportation engineering knowledge transfer. Specifically, Pavement Interactive is an online pavement community built on an open-source wiki platform where users can create, edit, browse, and search site content with just a computer, web browser, and internet connection. It contains 523 web pages and has logged just over 2 million page views in 3 years of existence. Data from Google Analytics over the past year show substantial and growing use worldwide. Observations of use indicate (1) primary use as a ready-reference and learning tool; (2) collaboration functions are possible but not extensively used; (3) substantial quality content attracts users; (4) participation drives success; (5) a majority of effort should be dedicated to content creation and participation; and (6) there should be a means to maintain currency for such websites beyond the funded development phase.
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Support for these products has come from the WSDOT, the Pavement Tools Consortium (a pooled fund study consisting of nine state departments of transportation: Washington, Texas, California, Minnesota, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Kansas, Idaho, and the FHWA), the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), the Washington Asphalt Pavement Association (WAPA), the Hawaii Asphalt Paving Industry (HAPI), and the University of Washington. The feedback and support from technical contacts and users at each sponsor organization have been critical to the wide use and early success of Pavement Interactive.UNSPECIFIED
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 12 • December 2010
Pages: 1165 - 1172
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Received: Sep 24, 2009
Accepted: May 11, 2010
Published online: Jun 5, 2010
Published in print: Dec 2010
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