Evaluation Of Pavement Condition Of Rural Roads Under Pmgsy For Maintenance At Patna

Research Article
Suman S.K and Ajeet KumarYadav
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2018.0908.2485
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Video graphic survey, Image processing, Pavement Condition Index (PCI), Age of pavement
Abstract: 

Road is very important transportation as mean of right to use for the community that lives in rural area. The aim of this paper is to assess the pavement surface condition of rural roads within district Patna, Bihar. A video graphic survey was conducted and image was analyzed by image processing. Total thirteen numbers of roads was surveyed. The roads are divided into a numbers of km for the pavement condition index determination, hence total number of sections become thirty seven. Distresses like potholes and raveling is common to all the roads. It is found that 11%, 22%, 13%, 16%, 19% and 19% of 37kms roads length are in condition namely excellent, very good, good, fair, poor and very poor respectively.T01 to TotaBigha road, condition of road was Excellent. Sohghi more PMGSY roads to sampatchak road, condition of road was 75% very poor and 25% excellent. L057 to Ekauna road, condition of road was 66% poor and 34% fair.It was observed that 67.57% roads have age around four years while 32.43% roads have age more than four years. It means pavement deteriorated rapidly hence required maintenance frequently.