Road pavements deteriorate with traffic loading and environment
but the separate effects of these factors are not yet well defined
especially with age or environment. This paper aims at finding
the separate effects of these two factors on asphalt pavement
rutting and cracking. It is believed that this will lead to better
modeling of pavement deterioration by clearly understanding and
treating the two factors as separate entities. A methodology was
devised to separate the two effects, in which pavement age is
used to represent the cyclic effect of environmental forces, and
analysis was carried out. Results show how each of these factors
influence pavement rutting and cracking and provide a further
understanding of the influence of some of pavement parameters
on pavement rutting.