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CONTENTS Foreword vii PART 1-CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT DELIVERY Effects of Vehicle Volume and Lane Closure Length 3 on Construction Road User Costs in Rural Areas Mikkel Y. Watts, Wesley C. Zech, Rod E. Turochy, Derek B. Holman, and Jeffrey J. LaMondia Value of Tablet Computers in Transportation Construction Inspection: 12 Ongoing Case Study of Projects in Pennsylvania Rama E. Asbahan and Paul DiGirolamo Benefits of Three- and Four-Dimensional Computer-Aided Design 18 Model Applications for Review of Constructability William J. O'Brien, Pierre Gau, Cameron Schmeits, Jean Goyat, and Nabeel Khwaja Comparison of Public-Private Partnerships and Traditional 26 Procurement Methods in North American Highway Construction Allan D. Chasey, William E. Maddex, and Ankit Bansal Effective Tools for Projects Delivered by Construction 33 Manager-General Contractor Method Nicola West, Douglas D. Gransberg, and James McMinimee PART 2-QUALITY ASSURANCE Evaluating Effects of Volumetric and Mechanistic Test Variability 43 on Predicted Performance of Asphalt Pavement: Applying the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide LouayN. Mohammad, Mostafa A. Elseifi, Samuel B. Cooper III, and Amar Raghavendra Solution to IMonnormality in Quality Assurance and Acceptance50 Quality Characteristics Data Moin Uddin, Paul M. Goodrum, Kamyar C. Mahboub, and Arnold Stromberg PART 3 PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE PAVEMENT Nondestructive Tests of Thickness Measurements for Concrete 61 Bill Pavements: Tests Really Work Jim Grove, Kevin Jones, Dan Ye, and Jagan M. Gudimettla PART 4 ASPHALT PAVEMENT Determining the Influence of Plant Type and Production Parameters 71 on Performance of Plant-Produced Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixtures Walaa S. Mogawer, Alexander J. Austerman, and Ramon Bonaquist Improving Quality Control of Hot-Mix Asphalt Paving with 82 Intelligent Compaction Technology Robert D. Horan, George K. Chang, Qinwu Xu, and Victor L. Gallivan jj Asphalt Mixture Beams Used in Bending Beam Rheometer 92 For Quality Control: Utah's Experience Chun-Hsing Ho and Pedro Romero Comprehensive Evaluation of Compaction of Asphalt Pavements 98 and a Practical Approach for Density Predictions Emad Kassem, Tom Scullion, Eyad Masad, and Arif Chowdhury PART 5 BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES Erection of Steel Bridges for Shinkansen High-Speed Rail 111 Kuniaki Minami, Masamichi Saito, and Kenji Shimizu Stability of Curved Steel l-Girder Bridges During Construction 122 T. Andres Sanchez and Donald W. White |