Bituminous surface treatment and its effectiveness as a municipal road surface—Faro, Yukon

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
• Main Author: Cotterill, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1984
• Subjects: General Environmental Science; Civil and Structural Engineering; Yukon; Canada; Faro; Whitehorse; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l84-007; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/l84-007

The use of bituminous surface treatment (BST) as a road surface is a technique commonly accepted and understood by most provincial and territorial highways departments, but for the average engineer or municipality, it may be nothing more than the squirting of some oil on a road surface and covering...