Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Wisconsin - Phase I (Winter Ride)

The Wisconsin Winter Ride Survey was designed to determine the extent to which drivers were tolerant of the rougher ride of pavements on rural two-lane highways in the winter. Survey objectives, as such, were centered around this primary question of winter ride tolerance. A telephone survey was conducted by the Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory (WSRL), which added questions to its quarterly Wisconsin Opinion Poll for the data collection period of January 15 to March 15, 1997. A similar survey focusing only on the topic of winter driving on rural highways was conducted in Minnesota during the same period. Random digit dial samples were drawn for both states according to accepted sampling procedure. The survey data set provided by WSRL included 417 respondents. Conclusions derived from the Wisconsin Winter Ride Survey included the following. Overall, Wisconsin respondents were predominately tolerant of the pavement’s potentially rougher ride in winter. Three-fourths of the 173 respondents who had noticed a change in the pavement indicated that they were more tolerant of the rough ride in winter than they would be the rest of the year. The extent to which motorists noticed changes in the pavement was influenced by the driving and vehicle characteristics. Respondents who drove more frequently on rural two-lane highways and those driving trucks, full-size vans or sport utility vehicles were more 2 likely to notice changes. The latter finding suggests that differences in suspension and ride entered in for respondents driving cars versus those driving trucks. It follows, therefore, that noticing pavement changes generally increased as ratings of the vehicle’s ride quality declined

AS-633-05 Resolution on Proposal for Cal Poly National Pool Industry Research Center

Approves Proposal for Cal Poly National Pool Industry Research Center

DOC 2020-07 Master of Construction Engineering and Management

Legislative AuthorityREFERENCE: DOC 2019-03 Actions Pertaining to Degree Programs and Academic Departments (Revised

2009 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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2017 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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2010 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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2021 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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2018 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Wisconsin - Phase II (state-wide survey)

This report covers Phase II of a three-phase pooled-fund project in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota to determine: 1) the perception/satisfaction level of the driving public and 2) how they correlate with the states’ physical data bases used to determine priorities for pavement improvements on rural, two-lane highways. In addition, policy issues of trust and improvement trade-offs are addressed. In Phase I, six focus groups of drivers were held in each state to determine the beliefs and issues about pavements that could be used to draft state wide questionnaires. Focus groups were held during the last half of 1996 in all three states. From the focus groups a language used by the public to describe and differentiate ruts, grooves, tining and other pavement characteristics was developed so that the phase II telephone surveys could help explain terms when needed. Phase II began in late 1996, involving a lengthy process to arrive at a questionnaire that satisfied all three states. Phase II consisted of a statewide telephone survey of at least 400 randomly-selected drivers 18 years or older in each of the three states. Actual pretests of the statewide surveys occurred in early fall 1997 with approximately 30 to 40 surveys in each state. The three statewide surveys were administered in Fall 1997, and completed in mid-December 1997 in Wisconsin, and early January, 1998 in Iowa and Minnesota. Comprehensive analysis of the data has been underway since then

2015 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department News

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