Abstract
Road inspection and maintenance require a large amount of data collection, where the main limiting factor is the time required to cover long stretches of road, having a negative impact on the optimization of the work. This article aims to identify modern tools for road maintenance and analysis. To carry out the research, recent methodologies are used to guide the work in different stages to adequately justify the processes involved. Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cameras, and GPS, three-dimensional virtual models are reconstructed, which are useful for extracting the necessary information since they allow for accurate replication of the captured. In this way, it is possible to obtain longitudinal profiles associated with the road, and with it, the international roughness index (IRI) is calculated, which gives results within 0.1 (m/km) of the certified official results, which shows its potential use and development.
Highlights
Roads must be safe and kept in good condition
There are different equipment and methods to calculate the international roughness index (IRI), which are classified into four classes
This research provides modern technological techniques and tools to solve problems present in road maintenance, either by lowering the equipment-related costs needed to obtain high-precision results or by reducing the time spent on measurements needed to achieve international roughness index results
Summary
Roads must be safe and kept in good condition. Maintenance management is an essential operation that must be carried out effectively to maintain, repair, and rehabilitate roads. For the development of maintenance works, it is first necessary to know the pavement conditions, based on correct inspection and monitoring processes of the road [2]. Roughness is one of the most relevant functional indexes and corresponds to irregularities in the pavement surface, affecting service quality. To quantify this factor, the international roughness index (IRI) is used as a statistical indicator of pavement irregularities and presents a unique scale of values for evaluation. Transport infrastructure is essential in the development of a country If it is kept in a state suitable for your usage needs, it makes an important contribution to the community’s progress. Surface conditions should be properly monitored, in road condition detection, identification, and classification [2]
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