The lab enables student to learn about testing asphalt properties, traffic and safety studies Equipment consists of asphalt testing and portable skid test devices; skid mark analyzer; vehicle classifiers and weigh-in-motion equipment; automatic traffic recorders; speed meters; noise meters and recorders; acoustic emission instrumentation; and a variety of video equipment for data collection and analysis.
The lab system enables students to apply many experiments and activities such as:
- Traffic counting
- Traffic trend analysis
- Traffic studies
- Traffic impact studies
- Asphalt content of hot-mix asphalt by ignition method
- Marshall properties tests
- Bitumen content
- Ductility of bitumen
- Viscosity of bitumen
