Evaluation of pavement condition and repair planning

Abstract

The text bellow describes the current state of the road maintenance and management. Also reviews the methods for evaluation of the road pavement condition, collection of data and analysis. During the transition in Central and Eastern European countries the rapid growth of car ownership and all the other transport means leads to the growing necessity for adequate evaluation of the actual condition of the road networks and it’s further development, methods of infrastructure planning and management. Prior to the above there is a necessity to: improvement of the road management methods through administrative (procedure) changes, introduction to modern planning techniques, institutional reorganizations, improvement of the selection criteria for projects and executors. This also leads to the necessity of unification with European standards, rules and regulations for evaluation the road condition and planning the road repairs. In this aspect, necessity of setting up a system which will improve the strategic road repair planning and infrastructure in response to the expected road transport needs over medium and long term planning periods turns out to be of utmost importance.