Rural Roads Pavement Performance Study – Phase 1

The main objective of this research project is to collect time series failure information at 10 villages road stretches selected on the PMGSY roads in the state of Rajasthan representing different terrain, weather and traffic conditions. It is also required to develop a serviceability based pavement design approach making use of the information collected to suit low volume village roads. Data collection is underway since 2 years at all the selected stretches of roads. Analytical work will commence once the data collection is completed.