Michigan TRI releases updated ‘Little Book of Profiling’
The University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) has released a second edition of an educational resource originally created in 1995.
The Little Book of Profiling Second Edition: Basic Information about Measuring and Interpreting Road Profiles is available for download as part of the UM Library’s Deep Blue Documents collection.
Originally created as an educational resource on the principles of longitudinal road profile measurement and interpretation for highway agency staff, highway researchers, profiling equipment manufacturers, highway construction contractors, and consultants, the second edition addresses changes to the state of practice since the 1990s. The latest “Little Book” chronicles the increased application of road profilers for construction quality assurance, increased use of road profilers to measure urban and low-speed roadways, improvements to profile measurement technology, better understandings of measurement errors, and the adoption of new measurement and analysis standards.
Asphalt Pavement Association of Michigan Executive Director Brett Stanton served on the technical panel which advised the update of The Little Book of Profiling, along with representatives from state departments of transportation, other associations, and the private industry.
