INTRODUCTION

 Pavements are building blocks of transportation networks.

 According to the Basic Road Statistics 2017, India, there has been distinctive increase in road
network in recent decade and among it, 70.65% of the road network is comprised of rural roads.
 Rural roads are important for the economical and social development of the villages.
 Pavement need to be regular maintained and evaluated to serve the public up to intended design
life.
 Pavement Condition Surveys are done to collect the data of the distresses.
 Unlike Highways, Rural roads are usually surveyed manually which is a laborious and time
consuming process.

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DATA COLLECTION BY NSV
High resolution
cameras

Sophisticated data
acquisition system

Assembly vehicle with

GPS and Odometer

Laser Profilometer

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MANUAL DATA COLLECTION

Collecting area of
cracked areas

Calculating rut depth

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 The rural engineers face a lot of difficulties collecting the data manually, the frequency of
the data collection is very low.
 Therefore, the road survey data of rural roads is sparsely available.
 The need of partial automation is the aim of this project that should be accessible and
affordable for any rural engineers.
 The Distresses ,such as potholes, rutting, shoveling, raveling, severe cracks etc. for flexible
pavements; and punch outs, joint widening, settlements cracks and corner cracks for rigid
pavements, which include depth component are particularly more difficult to measure
manually

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INTRODUCTION
FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS

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INTRODUCTION
RIGID / CONCRETE PAVEMENTS

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 METHODOLOGY
Literature review and Defining the objective Design of low cost ultrasonic
Problem Identification and scope sensor based instrumentation

Development of circuit Design and development of

with Arduino board and frame for housing the
sensors sensors

Programming excel for

Development of interface for
data analysis and
data retrieval from the sensors
calculations

Field testing of the Data Visualization Recommendations and

equipment and comparison future scope