New Transverse Unevenness Indexes of the Road Profile
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 148, Issue 3
Abstract
The influence of the transverse unevenness indexes of the road profile on the vehicle vibration was rarely studied in the past. This study proposes new road indexes of the transverse road profile and their correlation with the whole-body vibration (WBV) measured on the passenger’s and the driver’s seats in a passenger car. The proposed new indexes are the range, interquartile range, and standard deviation of the transverse profile vertical displacements. The benchmark was the maximum rut depth specified in the European standard. The WBV was evaluated on the passenger’s and driver’s seat surface in three perpendicular axes of various vehicle types traveling on test sections of different categories and quality over 4,100 km. The correlation of the proposed indexes with the total passenger’s seat acceleration was similar to that for the maximum rut depth. Using the combination of longitudinal and the proposed transverse unevenness indexes improved the correlation with the passenger’s seat vibration in the lateral direction by 23% and the model RMS error (RMSE) decreased by compared with that of the maximum rut depth.
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Data Availability Statement
Measured longitudinal and transverse road profiles and roughness indexes (IRI and RUT) were provided by the Road databank of the Slovak Road Administration. Direct requests for these materials may be made to the provider. Measured WBV data and MATLAB program code for processing vibration response and road roughness used during the study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the VEGA Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. 2/0148/19 and 2/0169/22). The author is indebted to Dinu Covaciu (Transilvania University of Braşov) and Stanislav Skýva (Road databank of Slovak Road Administration) for consultations, and to drivers Rudolf Valentovič, Michal Rozinaj, and Stanislav Chovanec.
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Volume 148 • Issue 3 • September 2022
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Received: Oct 18, 2021
Accepted: Apr 29, 2022
Published online: Jul 7, 2022
Published in print: Sep 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Dec 7, 2022
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