Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices, Topic S09-09: Automated Pavement Condition Survey Practices at Airports

Project Details
STATE

FAA

SOURCE

RIP

START DATE

11/25/19

END DATE

12/24/20

SPONSORS

FAA, Airport Cooperative Research program

KEYWORDS

Airport runways, Airports, Automatic data collection systems, Condition surveys, Literature reviews, Pavement management systems, State of the practice

Project description

Pavement condition data is a critical component of all pavement management systems. The accuracy and validity of pavement condition data is the basis for many activities conducted by airports and local agencies. Pavement condition data is used, for example, to support asset management, assess existing and future pavement condition, establish budget needs and evaluate budget impacts, and select projects for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. Many federal transportation bills (National Performance Management Measures; Assessing Pavement Condition for the National Highway Performance Program and Bridge Condition for the National Highway Performance Program) are performance-based. As such, agencies are increasingly required to report validated pavement conditions when requesting funding. Pavement condition reporting in support of federal funding requests includes existing project data on rut depth, the International Roughness Index (IRI) and percent cracking for flexible pavements and faulting for jointed concrete pavements, and IRI and percent cracking for continuously reinforced concrete pavements. ACRP Research Report 203, Collecting, Applying, and Maintaining Pavement Condition Data at Airports, was published in 2019.
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