Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT FOR MUNICIPALITIES --PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS HELD DEFLT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AUGUST 23-26 1982. VOL 1 AND 2. -- NETHERLANDS
Abstract: A working group set up by the studie centrum wegenbouw (study centre for road construction) is developing a system for the application of efficient road management by municipal road managers in the Netherlands. Starting from a provisional system, a suitably adapted system has been developed by testing and verification in actual practice. This has been done in a modal municipality chosen for the purpose. To this end, a comprehensive data acquisition survey of the whole road network was carried out, and visual inspections and measurements were performed over a period of some years. Also, standards for maintenance criteria were established, prediction methods for time related behaviour were investigated, and planning techniques were developed. The result of this testing and verification procedure comprises recommendations for setting up a scheme of data acquisition and visual inspection and for the execution of various measurements and their value assessment. Standards and behaviour predictions should be used with the necessary caution. The amount of detail and the number of factors determining the execution of maintenance measures increase as the planning period is shorter. The content of the data acquisition survey and the measuring and inspection methods employed are more particularly adapted to these circumstances. Details are given of how the collected data are used in planning the maintenance for the various terms envisaged. In the first phase of the working group's activities which have yielded the results reported here the emphasis has been on the development of a systematic procedure which is clearcut and suitable for practical application. This paper therefore has a descriptive character. The results of visual inspections and of measurements are dealt with only in so far as they play a part in connection with the development of the above-mentioned systematic procedure. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 815640.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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