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TRF - 2015
Recent Submissions
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Analysis of air void variations in hot mix asphalt wearing course mixtures used in Sri Lankan roads [Conference-Abstract]Over the past decades, the road construction with hot mix asphalt (HMA) has been increased significantly. However there were many concerns of the durability of the recently constructed asphalt concrete roads. Therefore, ...
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[Conference-Abstract]With the huge infrastructure development in Sri Lanka, construction of roads plays a vital role. Massive quantities of construction materials required for these highway and expressway constructions. Finding sub base ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Compaction of Unbound Material in road construction projects, plays one of major role, as it directly contributes to project cost, quality, time and natural environment. Compaction effort is optimized significant amount ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Prime coat application is a necessary activity in road construction and it has a purpose in the pavement construction process, yet many times prime is misused during the project. The main function of prime coat is to ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Road crashes in Sri Lanka is becoming a major social, economic and health issue with rapidly increasing number of vehicles, road kilometers and vehicle kilometers travelled. Despite the significant increase in road ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Analysis of technically unexplainable accidents has confirmed that accidents could occur not only due to the user misbehaviors but also due to the lack of purpose designed field of vision including road courses without ...
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[Conference-Abstract]With the increasing demand for transport means, new technological vehicles and heavy loads carrying vehicles are used by people, in order to take the financial advantage. Consequently most of the commercial vehicles ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Passenger Car Unit (PCU) or Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a metric used in Transportation Engineering, to assess traffic-flow rate on a road or an intersection. A Passenger Car Equivalent is essentially the impact ...
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[Conference-Abstract]The rational formula has been used for the peak flow estimation over 150 years and still remains as the most widely used flood estimation technique. The method is applied assuming that rainfall intensity and storm duration ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Road accidents and the consequential fatalities have become a national tragedy in Sri Lanka. According to the records in the Police Department 37,881 road accidents occurred in the country in 2013 of which 2,363 were ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Road traffic accidents in a country are inevitable and these accidents can be caused due to several different factors. They can vary from place to place and time to time and are in no particular order: excessive speed, ...
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[Conference-Abstract]All Pedestrian accidents in Sri Lanka in last four years from 2010 to 2013 are 20.89%, 17.65%, 17.53% and 18.51% of total accidents respectively. Among these, pedestrian crossing accidents are 17.89%, 15.20%, 17.85% and ...
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[Conference-Abstract]The safe and efficient flow of traffic through work zones is a major concern to transportation officials (government authorities, contractors), the public, businesses, and road users. Key areas for performance measures ...
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[Conference-Abstract]In transport planning, two major approaches can be seen: namely, micro-level (local, intracity) and macro-level (regional, inter-city) planning. The different nature of the micro-level and macro-level travel behavior is ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Colombo, the Capital of Sri Lanka, being the hub of commercial activities with the Port and other key business establishments, the vehicle fleet entering the city has increased steadily over the past decade. As a result ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) is operating around 300 passenger train movements daily across its 1400 Km rail network. About 90% of train movements out of this have Maradana or Colombo as the destination or the starting point. ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Commuting by bicycle is a sustainable transport strategy and has advantages over other modes of transport, both for the commuter and for society. The social cohesion that cycling can bring through recreational opportunities ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Three wheelers have a significant contribution towards the road transportation as a popular para-transit mode in the country. Three wheeler transports is highly unregulated at present and is mainly criticized for its ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Traffic congestion due to ever-increasing number of vehicles and pedestrians is one of the major problems that need to be tackled especially in metropolitan areas. Numerous methods are available to reduce delays and ...