scholarly journals A Study on the Roads Flatness Using International Roughness Index in New Taipei City

2022 ◽  
Vol 2160 (1) ◽  
pp. 012035
Author(s):  
Chun Lin ◽  
Shong Loong Chen ◽  
Chaowei Tang ◽  
Hsin Ang Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Statistical Comparison ◽  
The Road ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The quality of roads is an indicator of urban progress. The development of tourism and economy contributes to the increasing demands for transportation and, thus, aggravated burdens and vulnerability to damage of these roads, and the result is compromised transportation quality and safety. The Road Leveling Project is aimed to road updates and improvement of pavement quality. New Taipei City was selected as the subject for this study. International roughness index (IRI) was selected for field survey and statistical comparison. The outcome indicated that the IRI spread between 3.5 and 6.5 m/km before road leveling with an average of 4.71 m/km; the index fell between 2.5 and 4.5 m/km after road leveling with an average of 3.12m/km, suggesting that the IRI of the tested road sections showed a declining trend. For multi-lane road sections tested, the improvement was greater on the outer lanes than on the inner lanes. This proves that the implementation of the Road Leveling Project has made significant improvement in terms of pavement flatness. Suggestions are proposed in this study for the subsequent management and improvement polices of the Road Leveling Project, hoping that the pavement quality improvement continues to contribute to the extension of road service life and ride comfort.

scholarly journals Research on the International Roughness Index Threshold of Road Rehabilitation in Metropolitan Areas: A Case Study in Taipei City

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10536
Author(s):  
Shong-Loong Chen ◽  
Chih-Hsien Lin ◽  
Chao-Wei Tang ◽  
Liang-Pin Chu ◽  
Chiu-Kuei Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Threshold Value ◽  
City Government ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
The Road ◽  
Standard Scale ◽  
Road Roughness ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Road Surface Roughness ◽  
Asphalt Concrete Pavement

The International Roughness Index (IRI) is the standard scale for evaluating road roughness in many countries in the world. The Taipei City government actively promotes a Road Smoothing Project and plans to complete the rehabilitation of the main and minor roads within its jurisdiction. This study aims to detect the road surface roughness in Taipei City and recommend appropriate IRI thresholds for road rehabilitation. A total of 171 asphalt concrete pavement sections in Taipei City with a total length of 803.49 km were analyzed and compared by IRI. The longitudinal profile of the detected road sections was measured using an inertial profiler. The statistical analysis showed that the IRI value prior to road leveling was mainly distributed between 5 and 8 m/km, while the IRI value after road leveling was mainly distributed between 3 and 4.5 m/km. This confirms that the implementation of the Road Smoothing Project has a significant effect on improving road smoothness. Moreover, based on the analysis results, it is recommended that the IRI threshold value for road rehabilitation in Taipei City be set at 4.50 m/km.

scholarly journals Research on the International Roughness Index Threshold of Road Rehabilitation in Metropolitan Areas: A Case Study in Taipei City

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shong-Loong Chen ◽  
Chih-Hsien Lin ◽  
Chao-Wei Tang ◽  
Liang-Pin Chu ◽  
and Chiu-Kuei Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Threshold Value ◽  
City Government ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
The Road ◽  
Standard Scale ◽  
Road Roughness ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Road Surface Roughness ◽  
Asphalt Concrete Pavement

The International Roughness Index (IRI) is the standard scale for evaluating road roughness in many countries in the world. The Taipei City government actively promotes a Road Smoothing Project and plans to complete the rehabilitation of the main and minor roads within its jurisdiction. This study aims to detect the road surface roughness in Taipei City and recommend appropriate IRI thresholds for road rehabilitation. A total of 171 asphalt concrete pavement sections in Taipei City with a total length of 803.49 km were analyzed and compared by IRI. The longitudinal profile of the detected road sections was measured using an inertial profiler. The statistical analysis showed that the IRI value prior to road leveling was mainly distributed between 5 and 8 m/km, while the IRI value after road leveling was mainly distributed between 3 and 4.5 m/km. This confirms that the implementation of the Road Smoothing Project has a significant effect on improving road smoothness. Moreover, based on the analysis results, it is recommended that the IRI threshold value for road rehabilitation in Taipei City be set at 4.50 m/km.

Investigation and Analysis of International Roughness Index at National Freeway in Taiwan

2015 ◽  
Vol 752-753 ◽  
pp. 1206-1209
Author(s):  
Jyh Dong Lin ◽  
Po Hsun Sung ◽  
Min Che Ho ◽  
Chien Jung Shen
Keyword(s):  
Road Networks ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Comfort Index ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Road Testing ◽  
East West

Taiwan's National Freeway plays an important role in Taiwan's transportation, it is convenient to go to anywhere through a series of north-south and east-west road networks, from this we can see, the freeway road quality is a project that always need to be concerned, and how to enhance the pavement quality of National Freeway will be the main subject of this study.In order to improve the comfort index of National Freeway in this study, we first understand the examination part of National Freeway, like road testing items and methods, and because the need of study, we need to organize the relevant information of National Freeway road comfort index and investigation processes, with the investigation and analysis processes, it is beneficial to maintain and enhance the comfort quality of National Freeway.

scholarly journals Study of Pavement Condition Index (PCI) relationship with International Roughness Index (IRI) on Flexible Pavement.

2019 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 03019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rijal Psalmen Hasibuan ◽  
Medis Sejahtera Surbakti
Keyword(s):  
Condition Index ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
The Road ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Pavement Condition Index ◽  
Local Roads ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
Two Parameters

Road is an infrastructure that built to support the movement of the vehicle from one place to another for different purposes. Today, it is often found damage to road infrastructure, both local roads, and arterial roads. Therefore, to keep the pavement condition to remain reliable, in Indonesia has a periodic program by conducting an objective functional inspection of roads regulated by Bina Marga using the International Roughness Index (IRI). However, the IRI examination is not sufficient to represent the actual field condition; it is necessary to perform subjective functional examination by appraising the road one of them is Pavement Condition Index (PCI, ASTM D 6433). This method has been widely applied in some countries because it has many advantages. However, to do this inspection requires considerable cost, then there needs to be a model to get the relationship between these two parameters of the road. The selected case study was arterial road segment in Medan City, that is in Medan inner ring road. Based on the results of the analysis, there is a difference between the functional conditions of PCI and IRI. The equation derived from these two parameters is by exponential regression equation, with equation IRI = 16.07exp-0.26PCI. with R2 of 59% with correlation coefficient value (r) of -0.768. The value of R2 indicates that PCI gives a strong influence on IRI value.

Customer Usage Based on Pseudo Damage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig T. Altmann ◽  
John B. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Profile ◽  
Road Roughness ◽  
Federal Highway ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Average Annual Daily Traffic ◽  
Road Type ◽  
Early Design Stages

Modeling customer usage in vehicle applications is critical in performing durability simulations and analysis in early design stages. Currently, customer usage is typically based on road roughness (some measure of accumulated suspension travel), but vehicle damage does not vary linearly with the road roughness. Presently, a method for calculating a pseudo damage measure is developed based on the roughness of the road profile, specifically the International Roughness Index (IRI). The IRI and pseudo damage are combined to create a new measure referred to as the road roughness-insensitive pseudo damage. The road roughness-insensitive pseudo damage measure is tested using a weighted distribution of IRI values corresponding to the principal arterial (highways and freeways) road type from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) dataset. The weighted IRI distribution is determined using the number of unique IRI occurrences in the functional road type dataset and the Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) provided in the FHWA HPMS data.

scholarly journals Assessment of the road based on PCI and IRI roadroid measurement

2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 04006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donny A. Putra ◽  
Mamok Suprapto
Keyword(s):  
Good Condition ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
The Road ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Pavement Condition Index

There are two methods of road assessment, ie, visually and using tools. Visual assessment makes use of the PCI (Pavement Condition Index), while assessment with the Roadroid app can be used to obtain the value of IRI (International Roughness Index) with less cost. Functional assessment of roads in the field more use of visual methods. This method is influenced by the subjectivity of surveyors. Therefore, the assessment using the visual method should be correlated with the assessment method using tools, in order to reduce the subjectivity of road assessment. The research location used is Magetan District Road consisting of 5 road segments. The result shows that the r road assessment using the PCI method has a very good condition, and using IRI Roadroid has a Medium condition. There is a negative (r) correlation between PCI and IRI Roadroid, valued at -0.23. The negative correlation shows that both judgments reversed. Comparison of PCI assessment with IRI Roadroid has a low correlation value and with ttest, yields no comparison of correlation. This result is because the PCI and IRI equally assess the pavement, using different methods.

scholarly journals TINJAUAN KONDISI PERKERASAN JALAN DENGAN KOMBINASI NILAI INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI) DAN SURFACE DISTRESS INDEX (SDI) PADA JALAN TAKENGON – BLANGKEJEREN

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-552
Author(s):  
Baihaqi Baihaqi ◽  
Sofyan M. Saleh ◽  
Renni Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Road Surface ◽  
Road Segment ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
Damage Level ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Surface Distress ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Pavement Damage

Abstract: Takengon - Blangkejeren road is one of the cross national roads connecting Central Aceh Regency with Gayo Lues Regency. This road is in the mountainous terrain and often passed by heavy loaded vehicles so that often damaged. To overcome the frequent damage to this road segment, it is necessary to conduct a research on road pavement damage. The purpose of this research is to know the condition of road damage based on the combination of International Roughness Index (IRI) and Surface Distress Index (SDI). This study uses direct observation method in the field by conducting a visual survey of road pavement conditions. The result of the research shows that the total damage level of road surface is 30,54% while the road surface is not damaged by 69,46% from total of road that become research object, that is 12,63 Km divided into 6 road segment. For the overall condition of roads reviewed 45.02% good, 45.81% medium, 6.87% lightly damaged, 2.29% heavily damaged.Abstrak: Ruas jalan Takengon – Blangkejeren merupakan salah satu ruas jalan nasional lintas tengah yang menghubungkan Kabupaten Aceh Tengah dengan Kabupaten Gayo Lues. Jalan ini berada pada medan pegunungan dan sering dilalui kendaraan dengan beban yang berat sehingga sering mengalami kerusakan. Untuk mengatasi kerusakan yang sering terjadi pada ruas jalan ini perlu diadakan suatu penelitian mengenai jenis kerusakan perkerasan jalan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kondisi kerusakan jalan berdasarkan kombinasi nilai International Roughness Index (IRI) dan Surface Distress Index (SDI). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pengamatan langsung dilapangan dengan melakukan survey secara visual terhadap kondisi perkerasan jalan. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh tingkat kerusakan keseluruhan permukaan jalan adalah sebesar 30,54% sedangkan permukaan jalan yang tidak mengalami kerusakan sebesar 69,46 % dari total panjang jalan yang menjadi objek penelitian, yaitu 12,63 Km yang dibagi menjadi 6 buah segmen jalan. Untuk kondisi keseluruhan jalan yang ditinjau 45,02 % baik, 45,81 % sedang, 6,87 % rusak ringan, 2,29 % rusak berat.

scholarly journals Analysis of Vehicle Vibrations – New Approach to Rating Pavement Condition of Urban Roads

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stjepan Lakušić ◽  
Davor Brčić ◽  
Višnja Tkalčević Lakušić
Keyword(s):  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Road Surface Roughness

Urban road infrastructure is daily burdened by heavy traffic volume. Pavement structure roughness observations are significantly more difficult in urban agglomerations than on roads in unpopulated areas. Roughness, expressed by IRI (International Roughness Index), directly affects the quality and safety of road traffic. Within the framework of the pavement management in relation to safety and the achievement of the best possible ride comfort, it is very important to foresee when a road should be reconstructed. The method for quality evaluations of safety and ride comfort on urban roads presented in this paper is based on vehicle vibrations measurements. In the article, measuring of vehicle vibrations was performed on the main urban roads in Zagreb (Croatia). Measurements covered roads with different pavement surface roughness. This method can be simply and very easily used in pavement management aimed at achieving road safety and better ride comfort. The results of measurements according to this method could be used by traffic and civil engineering experts as an indication for the roads that require reconstruction or maintenance. KEY WORDS: urban roads, traffic flow, safety, vehicle vibrations, road surface roughness (IRI)

scholarly journals R. Bukharaev’s poem “Prayer for the Cup” as a transcultural text

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 290-299
Author(s):  
Venera R. Amineva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Flow Transitions ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Homogeneous Culture ◽  
The Way

The characteristics of a new type of literary discourse having a feature of transculturality is given on the material of a poem “Prayer for the Cup” (1989–1991) a significant work by R. Bukharaev. A global, multicultural and international world is reconstructed in the poem, the existence of which is determined by the idea of transitivity — simultaneity and continuous flow, transitions from one into another: epochs, events, topos, languages. The hero of this world — is a lonely stranger, walking along the road of life, linearly opening the autonomous world of his “I”. the history of his spiritual travel correlates with the way of Christ full of suffering. The poem is full of historical and literary allusions and reminiscences from the world literary works, performing an identifying function. It is stated that identification performed by different elements of a literary text is carried out both “on the borders”, “in the interval” between different traditions, as well as “within the limits”, “inside” a homogeneous culture. Therefore, it is multiple, and meanwhile fundamentally incomplete, “split”, “fluid”, “intermediate”, “flickering”, probabilistically multiple, constantly questioning its status and revealing the growing plasticity of the subject, who is in the process of constantly recreating its own “I”. A new form of worldview, the product of which is a phenomenon of transcultural literature, is formed by synthesizing tendency. It functions within the artistic world of the poem and overcomes the boundaries between different types of culture and traditions, demonstrating the way new meanings overcome it, tolerant in their content and functions, can be appear from confrontation. An ability of an artistic image to endless mutual overflowing and transformations of meaning is a new quality of poetic language corresponding to the peculiarities of the transcultural type of artistic consciousness.

Smooth Enough?: Estimated Roughness on Roads with Low International Roughness Index Values

2003 ◽  
Vol 1860 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Dahlstedt
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Spectral Composition ◽  
Random Errors ◽  
International Roughness Index ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Roughness ◽  
Longitudinal Roughness ◽  
Roughness Index ◽  
Subjective Estimates

The reported investigation is one part of a project concerning methods for measurement of the longitudinal roughness of roads and the necessary accuracy. In this study the main focus was on the subjective experience of roughness on roads with low international roughness index (IRI) values, that is, fairly good roads. With the available data it was also studied how much a random error added to the IRI values would influence the correlations with the subjective estimates. The investigation was carried out as a magnitude estimation experiment. Twenty-two observers made their estimates while traveling as passengers first in a car and later in a truck. The roughness estimates were made on 45 sections along a 60-km route. Most of the stretches had an IRI roughness between 0.5 and 3.0 mm/m, with a few of up to IRI = 5.5. The reference section had an even higher roughness, IRI = 6.24, which was given the nominal subjective roughness magnitude of 100. The main results of the study were as follows: subjective roughness seems to be a linear function of roughness according to IRI within the studied roughness range; for some road sections with a nontypical spectral composition of the road roughness, it was found that the correlation between IRI and subjective roughness decreased considerably, and the simulations of random errors added to the IRI values showed that within the studied range and with the fairly large number of observations (45), random measurement errors up to at least ±0.2 IRI unit (mm/m) can be considered insignificant.

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