ONTARIO FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DISTRESS ASSESSMENT FOR USE IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT

A method is described which is used in Ontario to assess the condition of the pavement at any time. The condition rating assigned is based on subjective judgement of riding quality, and the appearance of rutting and distortion, surface defects, and cracking. The guidelines used for assisting the rater in the assessment process, include typical descriptions of eight different stages in the life of a pavement, and a catalogue of photos and descriptions. A method is also described of calculating the pavement condition rating from measured roughness values and from the standard terms used to describe the visual observations of distress. The weighting for distresses used in these calculations was established from iterative correlations with subjective condition ratings. The condition rating and the description of distresses are used in determining suitable alternative maintenance and rehabilitation treatments in setting priorities and in formulating rebabilitation programs. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association.
• Corporate Authors:

  Multiscience Publications Limited

  1253 McGill College, Suite 175
  Montreal, PQ  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Phang, W A
  • Chong, G J
• Conference:
  • This paper was presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association.
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1-21

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aging (Materials); Conferences; Cracking; Defects; Deterioration; Driver rehabilitation; Evaluation; Evaluation and assessment; Flexible pavements; Maintenance; Pavement cracking; Pavement distress; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Repairing; Riding qualities; Ruts (Pavements); Rutting; Smoothness; Strategic planning; Surfacing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement conditions; Rehabilitation; Rut
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 5292: Ageing; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 5211: Cracking; 5255: Deterioration; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 3071: Evenness; 2944: Flexible pavement; 3847: Maintenance; 3635: Repair; 3081: Rutting (wheel); 2972: Surfacing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379787
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 29 1984 12:00AM