Pavement Maintenance and Management System For Low Volume Roads

Abstract

The general condition of the roads in India is poor. The costs borne by the road user for vehicle operation on account of poor road conditions are very high, past studies revealed that about 90% of the total transportation cost is attributed to the user cost, which is primary, depends on road condition. PMS is widely accepted as a modern day necessity by the agencies in charge of maintenance of roads. In the present work, nineteen Test Sections are identified to carry out the study. Data collection involved Road Inventory, Pavement Condition and Traffic Volume Surveys. With the data obtained detailed analysis has been conducted for doing prioritization, Index Ranking Method is employed. Pavements are ranked based on the composite index values obtained in the Index method. Also decision trees developed by the Oregon State University (2000) have been used to identify the type of maintenance measures based on the data collected from the field. For doing Prioritization and for determining Skid resistance, Unevenness Index, Pavement Serviceability Index of the Pavement sections a visual basic Programme has been used in the present study.