Book Description

Rating of highway pavement surface condition is used by highway system authorities as a measure of the ability of the pavement to continue to provide required service to the public. Ratings are based on riding quality and distress manifestations which currently apply only to those roads surfaced with asphaltic concrete and Portland-cement concrete. There is also a network of bituminous surface-treated roads for smaller and more remote population centres which has, to date, had no scheme designed and developed specifically to address their performance pattern. This manual presents a pavement surface condition rating scheme for such roads, based on the same interrelated measures used on the highway system. The manual describes the scheme, and gives a procedure for evaluation, defines riding quality, and details such distress manifestations as surface defects and deformation and cracking, shoulder distress, and maintenance treatments.