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Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) is defined as the controlled application of a wheel loading, at or above the appropriate legal load limit, to a pavement system to determine pavement response in a compressed time period. In a 4th Industrial Revolution age, issues around the datafication of life, data science, big data, transportation evolution through Mobility as a Service (MAAS), optimization of logistic and supply chains and automation of various aspects of life, including vehicles, become everyday features. It is important to re-evaluate the future of APT. Traditional APT approaches applied traffic load volumes to a section of the pavement in a much accelerated methodology, due to the combination of continuous load application of often increased load levels, and the relatively low traffic volumes on most roads. Currently, many roads carry volumes in excess of the abilities of APT devices to keep up with normal load applications. The number of international APT facilities grew constantly over the last decade, and therefore large masses of APT-based road response data are generated. In this future APT environment, aspects such as the ability of APT to still provide acceleration of traffic loading, as well as the judicious data fusion and analysis of data from various disparate sources/programmes to provide solutions to increasing need for the provision of economical and safe pavements, are addressed in this paper.
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Steyn, W.J.v. (2020). Future APT – Thoughts on Future Evolution of APT. In: Chabot, A., Hornych, P., Harvey, J., Loria-Salazar, L. (eds) Accelerated Pavement Testing to Transport Infrastructure Innovation. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 96. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55236-7_73
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