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The effect of heavy loading and groundwater table in full-scale testing of cycle paths
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Infrastructure, Infrastructure maintenance. Division of Building Materials, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden .ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0334-9940
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Infrastructure, Infrastructure maintenance.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1162-2633
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Infrastructure, Pavement Technology. Division of Highway and Railway Engineering, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4256-3034
2026 (English)In: Transportation Research Procedia: 12th BCRRA 26 / [ed] Suzana Svetličič, Saunders Elsevier, 2026, Vol. 99, p. 936-943Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Passings of heavy vehicles is a common cause of distress on thin and narrow cycle paths. The lack of lateral support at the edge and increased moisture content in the unbound granular materials are two important factors that affect deterioration. Three full-scale instrumented cycle path structures with different structural designs were constructed in a concrete pit at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) test facility. Response measurements were conducted with a falling weight deflectometer (FWD), a light weight deflectometer (LWD), and light, standard and heavy maintenance vehicles at three different groundwater table scenarios. The results confirm reduced load-bearing capacity close to the cycle path edge, and at an increased groundwater table. In general, larger transverse tensile strains can also be expected in the asphalt layer close to the edge. 

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Saunders Elsevier, 2026. Vol. 99, p. 936-943
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Transportation Research Procedia, ISSN 2352-1465
Keywords [en]
Cycle paths, Full-scale test, Instrumentation, Maintenance vehicles, Edge deformation, Groundwater table
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Infrastructure Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-22862DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2026.07.136Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105051195133OAI: oai:DiVA.org:vti-22862DiVA, id: diva2:2098206
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12th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways, and Airfields (12th BCRRA 26), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 22-24, 2026
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Mistra InfraMaint Project 1.8 - Maintenance of roads and streets based on objective data
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Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, DIA 2016/28Swedish Transport Administration, TRV 2021/79526Available from: 2026-09-03 Created: 2026-09-03 Last updated: 2026-10-02Bibliographically approved

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