MnROAD Lessons Learned
This page provides links to PDF documents of the MnROAD Lessons Learned overview report and 12 supporting technical briefs about MnROAD contributions to pavement engineering.
MnROAD Lessons Learned
MnROAD Lessons Learned report (Derek Tompkins and Lev Khazanovich)
This report presents an overview of MnROAD products of interest at the local, state, and national levels. The report also provides extensive references for these products in hopes of increasing awareness of MnROAD's under-publicized contributions to pavement engineering.
- MnROAD Lessons Learned report - 914 KB PDF
Technical Briefs
Climate Research at MnROAD (Ben Worel)
This brief details some of the MnROAD products dealing with MnROAD's experience in cold-regions pavements.
- Climate Research at MnROAD Technical Brief - 133KB PDF
Drainage and Pavement Performance (Roger Olson)
This brief details some analysis and experiments about pavement drainage using MnROAD data and/or the MnROAD facility.
- Drainage and Pavement Performance Technical Brief - 116 KB PDF
Educational Benefits of MnROAD (Ben Worel)
This brief outlines MnROAD's contributions in educating students, professionals, and the public about pavement issues.
- Educational Benefits of MnROAD Technical Brief - 52 KB PDF
Low-Temperature Cracking Performance at MnROAD (Tim Clyne, Ben Worel1, and Mihai Marasteanu)
This brief examines results from studies of low-temperature cracking at MnROAD.
MnROAD Observations on Low-Volume Roads (Tim Clyne)
This brief details the low-volume road (LVR) at MnROAD and the work done using the low-volume road in LVR design, aggregate road studies, and the adoption of new LVR materials.
- MnROAD Observations on Low-Volume Roads Technical Brief - 77 KB PDF
- Low-Volume Roads fact sheet - 186 KB PDF
- Low-Volume Roads: For Further Reading
Mechanistic-Empirical Design and MnROAD (Shongtao Dai)
This brief details MnROAD's involvement in mechanistic-empirical (ME) design and describes the capacity of MnROAD as a lasting influence on mechanistic pavement design for years to come.
- Mechanistic-Empirical Design and MnROAD Technical Brief - 221 KB PDF
MnROAD Database Guide (Ben Worel)
This document describes what data has been collected at MnROAD and where it is stored for research use.
- MnROAD Database Guide Technical Brief - 327 KB PDF
MnROAD and the Adoption of New Products in Pavements (Derek Tompkins and Lev Khazanovich)
This brief details a few accomplishments of MnROAD in new technologies and discusses the ability of MnROAD in the development and adoption of these technologies.
Non-pavement Research at MnROAD (Ben Worel)
This brief describes non-pavement products developed at MnROAD and the ability and flexibility of MnROAD staff in adapting the facility to non-pavement research, and the potential of MnROAD to host research experiments, demonstrations, and research outside of pavement engineering.
- Non-pavement Research at MnROAD Technical Brief - 129 KB PDF
Overview of MnROAD Reports (Ben Worel)
Though this brief does not account for all of the hundreds of MnDOT reports that mention MnROAD, it will review MnROAD's objectives in research and characterize the reports dealing with MnROAD's activities in its first ten years of operation.
- Overview of MnROAD Reports Technical Brief - 118 KB PDF
MnROAD Mainline IRI Data and Lane Ride Quality (Derek Tompkins, John Tweet, Lev Khazanovich, Bernard Izevbekhai, and Tim Clyne)
This brief details that analysis for the mainline International Roughness Index (IRI) data at MnROAD and discusses the development of MnDOT's IRI specifications and the use of MnROAD test sections to calibrate IRI test equipment.
Thin and Ultra-thin Concrete Overlays (Thomas Burnham)
This brief highlights the lessons learned from the testing and monitoring of the field performance of thin and ultra-thin concrete overlays in MnROAD test sections.