A semi-automatic method of assessing the technical state of the street network through the software „E.S.T.S.”

Flavius Florin Paval

Last modified: 2019-03-04

Abstract


Knowing the technical state of road networks is necessary because it provides relevant information to infrastructure managers about the need to intervene to make road conditions more viable. At present, in Romania, the assessment of the technical condition of both roads and streets is carried out with the norms and standards in force for roads.
The reality shows that the way of approaching maintenance work on the streets is deficient because both the operating conditions and the principles of the urban transport networks are different from the similar conditions existing on the extra-urban road networks.
In order to facilitate the methodology for determining the state of degradation of the street network, in the doctoral thesis entitled "Contributions to the procedure for analyzing the technical condition of the street network for the programming of the intervention works" was created a software which can be used for free by any administrator street network and roads because the software created determines the state of degradation for both coefficients from existing roads by existing regulations, and the coefficients proposed for street network in the doctoral thesis.
With the use of this software, it is only necessary to move on the ground with IT equipment (tablet or laptop) with internet access and measuring tools, and by real-time completion it is possible to determine in real time the state of degradation of the studied street sector.
This tool can only be used by road managers in Romania and its presentation is intended to provide an example of good practice for road administrations in other countries as well.

Keywords


E.S.T.S., technical state, methodology, maintenance

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