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The procedure used by the New York State Department of Transportation to collect highway condition data by using an in-motion windshield survey is described. The windshield survey is performed by road rating teams from the department's regional offices. Cost is about $50,000 for the 16,000-mile system or about $3.12/mile. Rating is done with carefully developed photograph scales in which photographs show not specific distress signals but rather general impressions of roads at various condition levels. Periodic training ensures consistency in assessing highway condition, and this decentralized approach permits a rapid data collection effort at a low cost to the agency. Also presented are the many uses of these data in the state's pavement management activity, both as a network-level condition-assessment process and as a screening process to identify sections of highway that require further engineering analysis. The conclusion is that windshield surveys conducted in accordance with the outlined rating methods can provide pavement managers with a current and reliable assessment of network-level highway condition and point to possible problem sections that require more detailed analysis. Low costs, speed of delivery of data, and avoidance of expensive measuring devices are also significant advantages of the method.

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Data collection; Defects; Evaluation; Networks; Pavement distress; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Photographs; Ratings; Roads; Surveys; Training; Windshields

Pavement conditions; Road networks

Administration and Management; Design; Education and Training; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways

TRIS, TRB

Aug 30 1984 12:00AM

• DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION OF ALASKA'S PAVEMENT RATING PROCEDURE
• DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALBERTA'S PAVEMENT INFORMATION AND NEEDS SYSTEM
• DEVELOPMENT OF A PRIORITIZATION PROCEDURE FOR THE NETWORK LEVEL PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• IMPLEMENTATION OF IDAHO'S PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• OPTIMIZATION OF LONG-RANGE MAJOR REHABILITATION OF AIRFIELD PAVEMENTS
• PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT-ONE CITY'S EXPERIENCE
• PREDICTING REDUCTIONS IN SERVICE LIFE OF SURFACE-TREATED PAVEMENTS UNDER OIL FIELD TRAFFIC
• RIGID PAVEMENT NETWORK REHABILITATION SCHEDULING