Riyadh City established and implemented a Pavement Maintenance Management System (PMMS) through the General Directorate of Maintenance and operation. The system was created to address the difficulties that come with maintaining and reserving the pave...
Measuring pavement roughness and detecting pavement surface defects are two of the most important tasks in pavement management. While existing pavement roughness measurement approaches are expensive, the primary aim of this paper is to use a cost-eff...
Magnitude alone fails to capture the full complexity of pavement roughness; its spatial distribution along a road is equally vital for effective maintenance planning. While traditional assessment has long relied on specialized survey vehicles, the ri...
Deflection slopes measured by the traffic speed deflectometer (TSD) are being used to backcalculate the moduli of pavement layers. Pavement surface roughness causes variations in tyre load magnitude due to excitation, which affects TSD measurements....
In the context of pavement management, conventional data collection methods for the evaluation of pavement functional condition are limited by relatively slow acquisition speeds, that prevent fast-lane motorway surveying at 120–130 km/h, and by...
The use phase of the pavement life cycle assessment (LCA) contributes significantly to both economic and environmental burdens. However, its role is often overlooked when making decisions for pavement construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. Pa...
Good ride quality is a fundamental requirement for all road networks in modern countries. For this purpose, it is essential to monitor and evaluate the effect of irregularities on road pavement surfaces. In the last few decades, many roughness indice...
Pavement roughness serves as a crucial indicator for evaluating road performance. However, traditional measurement methods, such as laser detection vehicles, are limited to providing roughness values for a single profile, failing to capture the overa...
A pavement’s roughness seriously affects its service life and driving comfort. Considering the complexity and low accuracy of the current recognition algorithms for the roughness grade of pavements, this paper proposes a real-time pavement roug...
This paper used pavement condition data collected by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) between 2001 and 2006 aggregated by U.S. states to identify macroscopic factors affecting pavement roughness in time and space. To account for prior paveme...
Gravel pavement has lower construction costs but poorer performance than asphalt surfaces on roads. It also emits dust and deforms under the impact of vehicle loads and ambient air factors; the resulting ripples and ruts constantly deepen, and theref...
Many agencies use pavement condition assessments such as the Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating (PASER) and Pavement Condition Index (PCI) to develop localized pavement management programs. However, both techniques involve some subjectivity and i...
The prediction of ride comfort holds significant potential for enhancing the driving experience of both human drivers and autonomous vehicles, as it is closely correlated with pavement roughness. However, in urban road scenarios, the presence of shor...
The traveling public judges the quality of a road mostly by its roughness and/or ride quality. Hence, mapping, monitoring, and maintaining adequate pavement smoothness is of high importance to State Departments of Transportation in the US. Current me...
Accurate, scalable pavement condition monitoring is essential for effective asset management, yet traditional methods of collecting metrics like the International Roughness Index (IRI), Pavement Condition Index (PCI), and Pavement Surface Evaluation...
Maintaining and rehabilitating pavement in a timely manner is essential for preserving or improving its condition, with roughness being a critical factor. Accurate prediction of road roughness is a vital component of sustainable transportation becaus...
This study investigates the vehicle–bridge coupling vibration performance of corrugated steel web box girder bridges under three-dimensional pavement roughness conditions. To effectively account for these roughness characteristics, a three-dime...
This article addresses the limited understanding of the landscape regarding Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Brazilian pavement infrastructure. It provides an overview of LCA’s application in assessing the environmental effects of pavements while...
Two-dimensional profiles extracted from three-dimensional pavement surface textures acquired by close-range photogrammetry are employed as geometrical input for modeling complex interfaces in finite element contact simulations of viscoelastic materia...
Trail pavement roughness significantly impacts user experience and safety. Measuring roughness over large areas using traditional equipment is challenging and expensive. The utilization of smartphones and bicycles offers a more feasible approach to m...
Pavement roughness is a critical indicator for road maintenance decisions and driving safety assessment. Existing methods primarily rely on multi-source explicit features, which have limited capability in capturing implicit information such as spatia...
One of the main priorities of airport authorities is to maintain a high level of serviceability of runway pavements due to the high safety requirements for aircraft at high speeds. Accordingly, the assessment of the functional condition of airfield p...
This study presents a smartphone-based dual-index framework for evaluating bicycle pavement conditions, aimed at supporting sustainable urban mobility and cyclist safety. Conventional assessment methods, such as the International Roughness Index (IRI...
Good road quality is an indicator of urban progress. In August 1998, the New Taipei City government implemented the “Road Leveling Project” on roads within its jurisdiction to improve the quality of public transportation. This paper aimed...
The International Roughness Index (IRI) is a crucial indicator of rigid pavement performance and distress, and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have made pavement management system (PMS) forecasting more cost-effective. However, purely data-driven A...
Timely maintenance of road pavements is crucial to ensure optimal performance. The accurate prediction of trends in pavement defects enables more efficient allocation of funds, leading to a safer, higher-quality road network. This article systematica...
In recent decades, numerous studies have investigated the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more precisely of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), in the prediction of complex technical parameters, particularly in the field of road infra...
Predicting the International Roughness Index (IRI) is crucial for maintaining road quality and ensuring the safety and comfort of road users. Accurate IRI predictions help in the timely identification of road sections that require maintenance, thus p...
The assessment of the road roughness conditions plays an important role to ensure the required performances related to road safety and ride comfort, furthermore providing a tool for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation planning. In this work, the...
Municipalities and transportation departments worldwide are striving to keep road pavement conditions acceptable, thus enhancing pavement sustainability. Although the pavement condition index (PCI) is widely used to assess distress conditions, tradit...
Laos Pavement Management System (PMS) manages 7700 km of National Roads (NRs) and estimates their Maintenance and Rehabilitation (MR) needs based on assessing pavement roughness conditions. This research aims to develop two International Roughness In...
Roughness is widely used as a primary measure of pavement condition. It is also the key indicator of the riding quality and serviceability of roads. The high demand for roughness data has bolstered the evolution of roughness measurement techniques. T...
Pavement performance models are considered a key element in pavement management systems since they can predict the future condition of pavements using historical data. Several indicators are used to evaluate the condition of pavements (such as the pa...
In-service Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements are subject to repeated dynamic loads from moving vehicles; thus, the actual stress generated in a PCC pavement may significantly differ from the static stress, which is normally used in the design...
The increasing demand for sustainable road infrastructure necessitates alternative materials that enhance soil stabilization while reducing environmental impact. This study investigated the application of organosilane-based nanotechnology to improve...
The current standard for evaluating road conditions worldwide relies primarily on the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) and the International Roughness Index (IRI). The IRI can be further calculated to obtain the Riding Quality Index (RQI). To assess pa...
Modern vehicles have extensive instrumentation that can be used to actively assess the condition of infrastructure such as pavement markings, signs, and pavement smoothness. Currently, pavement condition evaluations are performed by state and federal...
Pavement performance models play a vital role in any pavement management system. The Regional Government of Biscay (RGB) (Spain) manages a 1200 km road network and conducts pavement data collections, including the International Roughness Index (IRI)...
In several Italian cities, it is possible to find historical pavements such as the Sampietrini pavements, which are mainly located in the center of the city of Rome. The Sampietrini pavement is a particular road surface paved in natural stone with ir...
The pavement is a complex structure that is influenced by various environmental and loading conditions. The regular assessment of pavement performance is essential for road network maintenance. International roughness index (IRI) and pavement conditi...
The dynamic load caused by vehicle vibration due to an uneven pavement surface is a primary factor affecting the structural performance and service life of asphalt pavement. As the principles of vibration mechanics, in conjunction with the coherence...
This paper proposes a methodology for correlating products derived by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) measurements and laser profilometric road roughness surveys. The procedure stems from two previous studies, in which several Machine Learning Algorit...
Pavement roughness is a critical airport pavement characteristic that has been linked to impacts such as safety and service life. A properly defined roughness evaluation method would reduce airport operational risk, prolong the life of aircraft landi...
The international roughness index (IRI) can be employed to evaluate the smoothness of pavement. The previously proposed mechanical-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG), which is used to model the IRI of joint plain concrete pavement (JPCP), has be...
The bonding between pavement and a steel bridge deck is a key component affecting the structural integrity of steel deck pavement and delamination is a major cause. The bonding interface of steel deck pavement was systematically investigated to evalu...
Stone pavements are present in many cities and their historical and cultural importance is well recognized. However, there are no standard monitoring methods for this type of pavement that allow road managers to define appropriate maintenance strateg...
Pavement distresses are induced by mechanistic responses in pavement structure subjected to dynamic loads of moving vehicles. Pavement surface evenness deteriorates as pavement distresses propagate, which results in dynamic axle loads and faster pave...
Data collection plays an important role in pavement health monitoring, which is usually performed using costly devices, including point-based lasers and laser scanners. The main aim of this study measures pavement characteristics using an RGB-D senso...
The presented self-developed high-precision contact friction test device conducts experimental research on the friction characteristics of concrete pavement. First, the error analysis of the test device is carried out. The structure shows that the te...
Pavement evaluation is critical for the decision-making process of pavement preservation and rehabilitation. Roughness is a key airport pavement characteristic that has been linked to impacts such as safety and service life. The Boeing Bump is one of...
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