Pavement surface distress is a key performance measure used by provincial/state and municipal roadway agencies in their asset management systems for rehabilitation programming. It is a true engineering measure of the pavement deterioration and can serve as a diagnostic tool to determine rehabilitation needs and treatments. This paper outlines the methodologies that the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways (BCMoTH) followed for refining its pavement distress index, which is based on the PAVER model and to develop regional, default pavement deterioration models. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211271.
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