Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. E1 (Pavement Engineering)
Online ISSN : 2185-6559
ISSN-L : 2185-6559
Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol.17
A STUDY ON REPAIR TARGET OF EVENESS AND BUMP HIGHTS FOR SIDEWALK PAVEMENT
Atsushi KAWAKAMIMasashi ITANIMasaru TERADAKazuyuki KUBOYasushi TAKEUCHI
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2012 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages I_71-I_77

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 In Japan, the people's concerns to comfortable sidewalk are becoming higher year by year. Therefore the sidewalk pavement that is considered of comfortable and scenery are developed a lot. The objectives of this study are to identify the required function of sidewalk pavement and to propose its repair target of the evenness and the bump heights. Therefore, the questionnaire was done by the road administrators about functions and management factors these are considered as important. And also the questionnaire that was answered by ordinary person (younger and elder) and wheel chair users, baby carriage users by walking on some kind of sidewalk pavement were done. As the results, the road administrator considered the bump and evenness as important factor to manage the sidewalk pavement. And the drafts of repair target for elderly person, wheel-chair user and baby carriage user and for ordinary person were proposed.
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