Rural Road Pavement Performance Evaluation A Case Study

Abstract

Pavement management system PMS is a term that relates to a system that utilizes the condition coding of roadways coupled with the identification of strategies to determine maintenance or re-construction activities. A pavement management system contains a series of decision units used to determine how and when to repair the roads surface based on various tests. These tests can be simply visual or employ special software and databases to provide rankings for roads or road. In India, mostly pavements are flexible in nature. Maintenance of flexible pavements is more difficult than rigid one as the surface of flexible pavement is affected by the atmospheric conditions more easily than rigid pavement. In the present paper four rural road test sections are identified in the various division of Warangal district to carry out the rural road pavement performance, detailed data collection has been done on the selected test sections i.e. road inventory survey, pavement condition survey and traffic volume survey and analysis was carried out using Highway Development Management (HDM-4) tool for responsive and schedule maintenance and compression was made among and best alternative was recommended.