DEVELOPMENT OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR ARTERIAL ROADS

Abstract

An arterial road is a high-capacity urban road which delivers the traffic from collector roads to freeways, and between city centres at the maximum and possible level of service. Therefore it is very important to maintain these roads as they are subjected to heavy traffic and on monsoon or poor drainage conditions which may damage the pavements at a faster rate further requiring timely maintenance and costly rehabilitation. Assessing the condition of the pavement periodically is important so that maintenance work can be taken up accordingly in order to slow down the deterioration rate. A tool which can access the deterioration of pavement is a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) which is a distress study carried out on pavement. PCI is a numerical rating of the pavement condition that ranges from 0-100 with 0 being worst possible condition 100 being the best possible condition. Therefore, this paper aims at bringing out the methodology used in carrying out the survey on the pavement and for rating of the pavement (PCI) with the case studies of four arterial roads of Rajarajeshwari Zone, Bangalore city and the PCIs of rating of these pavements at the time of studies was found to be from very poor to excellent. Pavement management strategies have been proposed based on the condition rating.