1.1 Purpose
The purpose of this manual is to provide the Texas Department
of Transportation (TxDOT), consultant firms, and contractors a detailed
pavement overview covering materials, design, construction, and
maintenance considerations for traditionally-let TxDOT projects.
This manual:
- serves as an extensive pavement reference that users can browse to look up typical design values, methods, practices and resources
- provides approved policies and procedures for pavement design for use on TxDOT projects
- provides pavement engineers with a uniform, streamlined process for designing pavements
- includes a list of available training courses for pavement engineers and links to web-based training for pavement design and analysis programs used by TxDOT
- serves as a guide to pavement engineers for selecting pavement rehabilitation strategies
- addresses related topics that a pavement engineer needs such as procedures for changing load zones, superheavy load analysis and pavement forensics.