The Design of Road Evaluation and Monitoring System based on Geographical Information System

Abstract

Road infrastructure that are suffered by high traffic volume and repetitive loading will lead to a decline in the quality and capacity. As an indicator can be seen from the road surface conditions, both structural and functional condition. Damage that occurs varies greatly along the road and when left in the long term, it will worsen the condition of the road. The method used in the evaluation of damage to roads in Indonesia is PCI ( Pavement Condition Index) method. PCI method is a method of road pavement condition assessment based on the type of damage, severity level and ethe density of damages compare to the wide of road surfacing. Application of PCI method tend to be less desirable because of the classification of the type of damage and the level of severity meausurement and density calculation are performed by manual observations at each segment and further calculation are still needed to get the index value. Road Evaluation and Monitoring System is a proposed system that lead to the adoption of Geographical Information Sistem based device to reduce the costs and labor for pavement evaluation and monitoring.