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The Influence of Tyre Pressure on the Design of Aerodrome Pavements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W. Fisher Cassie
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The influence exerted by the technical development of a vehicle on the design of the surface on which it travels is of considerable historical and social importance. Technical progress in the design of the road vehicle has never been matched by a similar development of the road, and in the past 50 years the discrepancy between the performance of the vehicle as dictated by road conditions, and the performance of which it is capable has been even more marked. The policy, forced upon society by national and international conditions, of compelling the vehicle to conform to the present standards of road design is highly restrictive and uneconomic, and such devices as pedestrian crossings, traffic lights and speed limits, are all evidences of failure to solve the problems of the simultaneous development of vehicle and road.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 501 , September 1952 , pp. 691 - 700
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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