Road Rehabilitation

The research project is based on how the city of Tyler can improve a section of roadway. The goal of the project will be identifying the severity and extent of all kinds of distresses in the roadway, calculating the pavement cracking idex (PCI) and eventually coming up with two to three recommended rehabilitation strategies. The data collection is done by surveying the roadway for what damage the roadway has sustained. The results show that most of the road is in good health and just needs routine maintenance but there is a single pothole that needs to be fixed. After the survey was completed the recommended plan for the roadway would be to either temporarily fix the problem by filling the pothole with hot mix asphalt (HMA), or permanently fixing the pothole by doing a full depth removal and replacement patch of the asphalt around the pothole.