This report describes the development details of the web-based information and guidance system produced as part of SHRP 2 Project R02, Geotechnical Solutions for Soil Improvement, Rapid Embankment Construction, and Stabilization of the Pavement Working Platform. Project background, literature review, development, programming, and testing of the system are detailed in this report. Recommendations for future enhancements of this website are also presented. Problematic soil and rock conditions routinely have significant negative cost and schedule effects on transportation infrastructure projects. Many geoconstruction solutions to these problems face obstacles that prevent broader and effective utilization. SHRP 2 Project R02 investigated the state of practices of transportation project engineering, geotechnical engineering, and earthwork construction and identified and assessed methods to advance the use of these technologies. Several of the identified technologies, although underused, offer significant potential to achieve one or more SHRP 2 Renewal objectives: (1) rapid renewal of transportation facilities; (2) minimal disruption of traffic; and (3) production of long-lived facilities. This project encompasses a broad spectrum of materials, processes, and technologies that are applicable to new embankment and roadway construction over unstable ground, roadway and embankment widening, and stabilization of pavement working platforms. (Author/publisher)
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