Pavement condition indicator method

Airfield pavement maintenance requires periodic measurements of pavement state indicators. These measurements may be heavy, inconvenient and costly for an airport operator.

Experience demonstrates that a simple visual survey of surface damage allows characterising pavement state. STAC has thus developed a visual pavement distress inspection method to allow defining a simple indicator characterising the pavement conditions.

A guide has been published to help users to gain practice and to ensure collected data are well interpreted.