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Establishment of a New Pavement Maintenance Database - Stage 1 and 2 Analysis
  • Publication no: AP-R394-11
  • ISBN: 978-1-921709-99-9
  • Published: 7 October 2011

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Pavement Maintenance database creation, including documenting the cleaning and filtering of the results. The analysis was performed on SA, VIC, NSW and QLD datasets to identify relationships between periodic maintenance (resealing, surface corrections, patching, etc.) and road condition/usage. A state-of-the-art method of analysis referred to as the minimum message length tool developed for the project (MML NTC) was used specifically for this analysis and is documented within the report. The Database, a joint Austroads/NTC funded Project, was developed for the State Road Authorities (SRA) of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

  • 1. INTRODUCTION
    • 1.1. Background
    • 1.2. Aim of the Project
      • 1.2.1. Approach to the Project
    • 1.3. Stage 1 – Auslink Segments
    • 1.4. Stage 2 – Arterial Road Segments
  • 2. DATA COLLECTION
    • 2.1. Personal Communication
    • 2.2. Requested Data – Stage 1
    • 2.3. Database Alignment – Stage 1
    • 2.4. Database Alignment – Stage 2
    • 2.5. Data Preparation
    • 2.6. Initial Cleaning
    • 2.7. Progression Rate Filtering – Stage 1
    • 2.8. Descriptive Statistics – Stage 1
    • 2.9. Descriptive Statistics – Stage 2
  • 3. DATA ANALYSIS
    • 3.1. Stage 1
      • 3.1.1. Classification Analysis
      • 3.1.2. Conclusions of Classification Results
      • 3.1.3. Family Modelling
      • 3.1.4. MML NTC
      • 3.1.5. Regression Results
    • 3.2. Stage 2
      • 3.2.1. Regression Results
    • 3.3. Discussion of Stage 1 and 2 Analyses
      • 3.3.1. Stage 1 Analysis
      • 3.3.2. Stage 2 Analysis
  • 4. RESULTS
    • 4.1. Maintenance Cost and Road Use Relationships – Stage 1
      • 4.1.1. Comparison with Previous Studies
      • 4.1.2. Estimation of % Heavy Vehicle Attributable Maintenance Costs from Maintenance Cost Equations
      • 4.1.3. Discussion
    • 4.2. Maintenance Cost and Road Use Relationships – Stage 2
      • 4.2.1. Comparison with Previous Studies
      • 4.2.2. Comparison with Estimates from Stage 1
      • 4.2.3. Discussion
  • 5. CONCLUSIONS
    • 5.1. Maintenance Cost and Road Use Relationships
    • 5.2. Heavy Vehicle Attributable Cost Estimate
    • 5.3. Assumptions and Limitations of Datasets
  • REFERENCES
  • APPENDIX A CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS
  • APPENDIX B FAMILY/REGRESSION ANALYSIS
  • APPENDIX C MML NTC RESULTS
  • APPENDIX D SRA RESULTS – STAGE 1
  • APPENDIX E SRA RESULTS – STAGE 2
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