PARIS - Performance Analysis of Road Infrastructure

Funding origin:

European

STRIA Roadmaps:

Transport infrastructure (INF)

Transport mode:

Road

Duration:

Start date: 01/09/1996,

End date: 01/09/1998

Status: Finished

Funding details:

Overview

Background & policy context:

Road transport provides over 80 percent of all transportation in Europe. A well maintained road infrastructure is therefore essential to Europe's economic and social development. Maintenance of the road infrastructure calls for structured planning, taking into account the life-cycle costs of the fabric of the roadway (or pavement) and the consequences for road users in terms of delays and risk of accidents at lane changes and closures associated with the execution of maintenance.

Objectives:

The objectives of PARIS were:

to develop road pavement deterioration models for use in road pavement management systems;
to produce uniform definitions, data acquisition and analysis methods to interpret road pavement performance;
to develop a central research database for road pavement condition data gathered in the participating countries;
to validate the road pavement deterioration models developed.

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