Unified Pavement Health Index: Comprehensive and Robust Approach to Measure Functional Condition of Asphalt Pavement Systems
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 149, Issue 4
Abstract
The objective of this study was to develop a generic pavement condition assessment scale, called the unified pavement health index (UPHI), that is capable of quantifying asphalt pavement surface quality, which could be altered based on region-specific conditions. The database, consisting of 541 road sections encompassing 1,345,397 data points in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, was used to formulate the metric. Five severity-based distress indexes were established to estimate the UPHI on a scale of 0 to 100. The metric was categorized into five groups to help inform maintenance interventions. A deep neural network was developed to automatically compute the UPHI for distresses data, which had a coefficient of determination of 96.05%. It is envisioned that the unified metric developed in this study will help practitioners in assessing the pavement functional condition based on 18 distresses and suggest maintenance strategies for network-level management in a rapid and rational manner.
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Data Availability Statement
The following data, models, and code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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Distress data of road sections.
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UPHI scenario-calculation sheets.
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UPHI DNN model.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge Andhra Pradesh Road Development Corporation personnel, India, for sharing the data set for this study.
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Volume 149 • Issue 4 • December 2023
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Received: Dec 11, 2022
Accepted: Jun 14, 2023
Published online: Aug 4, 2023
Published in print: Dec 1, 2023
Discussion open until: Jan 4, 2024
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