Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.Microfiche copy available in Archives and Engineering.Bibliography: leaves 116-118.M.S

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Heuristic rules for highway design and management.

The objective of highway authorities is to provide the least cost means of transportation within the highway network of their jurisdiction. This is only achieved when a delicate balance is struck between construction, user, and maintenance costs. Highway design and management is a complex field and the interactions amongst the many variables makes the finding of the optimal balance difficult. The advent of the computer has aided the engineer by rapid computation of many feasible solutions allowing the optimal to be found by enumeration. However the problem still remains that there are so many variables and their ranges are so large that exhaustive enumeration can lead to excessive computer costs. Thus it is desirable to limit the range of the search, by applying rules, before resorting to the computer. Heuristic rules have been in vogue in highway design since its inception. Pavement design especially is one aspect which has bee

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