Since 1987 road surface condition data has been collected in an organized way in Sweden. Today this is done on commercial basis under a procurement process. A qualification procedure is developed to select suitable operators and equipment. This is now possible to be obtained with continued measures about cracking and bearing capacity that complements the surface condition with road structure condition. The improvement and development of equipment is to be done by the commercial actors. This also put a focus on the possible market. A country such as Sweden is too small for this type of market. There is a need for a European or worldwide standard. This report will address how to choose equipment and operator with respect to requirements such as necessary accuracy and data quality and also suggestions of possible future measures and equipment as well as a proposal for a worldwide test procedure standard. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E212095.
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