Effect Of Pavement Condition On Capacity And Level Of Service For Urban Road

Abstract

This study deals with the flexible pavement condition and its effect on capacity and level of service of urban road. There are two stretches raiya road and field marshal road of 1km straight length selected for functional evaluation. The distress parameters are included cracking, raveling, potholes, shoving, patching, settlement - depression and Rut depth. Ratings of pavement have been done on the selected urban roads by using Guidelines for Maintenance Management of Primary, Secondary and Urban Roads, IRC 2004. In this study, Traffic volume count data was collected in selected urban road and calculate capacity of road and according to capacity find out the Level of Service (LOS) as per Indo HCM-2017 on urban road. It is found that, the raiya road rating is 4 and condition is good and the field marshal road rating is 2.86 and condition is poor to fair by using Guidelines for Maintenance Management of Primary, Secondary and Urban Roads, IRC 2004. It is found that, the raiya road level of service is below C and the field marshal road level of service is above D by using Indo HCM-2017. In this research has been carried out investigating the relationship between roadway surface conditions and traffic quality.