to properly plan for construction, repair, maintenance, and reconstruction of highways the minimum acceptable roadway condition is needed information. this, along with other pavement management tools, will help select the most desirable roadway alternatives. in this research the minimum acceptable conditions are developed based on an opinion survey of non-technical but high-level decision maker...

In determining certain infrastructure rehabilitation needs, it is sometimes important to consider user perceptions along with physical measures of infrastructure condition. Pavement roughness is one such case. A critical determinant of public satisfaction, user perception of pavement roughness can potentially play a critical role in the allocation of resources to competing highway resurfacing p...

As roadway systems age and maintenance budgets shrink, a need emerges for timely and roughness data for pavement maintenance decision-making. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) maintains the third-largest state network of roadways in America, with $1.8 billion budgeted for roadway maintenance in 2012. Pavement assessment data in Virginia is currently collected by a contractor usin...