WINDSHIELD SURVEYS OF HIGHWAY CONDITION: A VIABLE INPUT TO PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
This paper describes the procedure used by the New York State Department of Transportation to collect highway condition data using an in-motion windshield survey. The windshield survey is performed by field scoring teams from the Department's regional offices, and involves the use of visual and verbal scales designed to ensure consistency in assessing highway condition. This decentralized approach permits a rapid data collection effort at a low cost to the agency. The paper also presents the many uses of this data in the State's pavement management activity and emphasizes its use as a network level condition assessment process, and as a screening process to identify sections of highway requiring further engineering analysis. The paper concludes that a condition survey procedure must be easily adapted to the existing resources of the implementing agency and that windshield surveys conducted in accordance with the outlined scoring methods can provide the pavement management process with a current and reliable assessment of network-level highway condition and point to possible problem sections. (Author)
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Corporate Authors:
New York State Department of Transportation
Planning Division, State Campus, Building 4
Albany, NY United States 12232 -
Authors:
- Shufon, J J
- Hartgen, D T
- Publication Date: 1982-8
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 27 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data collection; Evaluation; Networks; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Roads; Surveying
- Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement conditions; Road networks; Visual surveys
- Old TRIS Terms: Highway pavement
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00371049
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Mar 31 1983 12:00AM