Assessment of surface damage and cracks in road pavements (BORIS)

Research Goals

• Literature review on state-of-the-art methods for assessing and evaluating surface damage and cracks, including national and international research.
• Improvement of damage and partial damage assessment at feature level, including damage location, assessment accuracy, and definitions of severity and extent.
• Analysis of the relationship between individual damage indicators and underlying causes.
• Development of an assessment algorithm for cracks and surface damage, including partial condition indicators where appropriate.
• Development of a normalisation and evaluation algorithm considering the intensity of potential maintenance measures.
• Optimisation of value synthesis for calculating serviceability and asset value, including proposals for asset value assessment.
• Comparison of current and proposed evaluation methodologies at section and network level, including impact analysis and recommendations.
• Final report summarising results and providing proposed revisions to guideline RVS 13.1.16.