• Ankit Gupta
• Pradip J. Gundaliya
• Rena N. Shukla

One of the important parameters to determine the maintenance and rehabilitation needs for road networks is surface unevenness of the pavement. Currently, road agencies use equipment which has high initial cost in order to find roughness condition which leads to more survey cost and labor. Apart from that most of the road agencies, especially for local government, frequently examine the pavement condition through visual inspections. This study involves the development of a profilometer to make data collection and real time monitoring of the pavement unevenness more effectively and economically. The measurements of the unevenness in the modified profilometer can be directly converted to the standard unevenness unit such as the International Roughness Index (IRI). It displays the unevenness information on an onboard computer simultaneously in real time. The paper also shows the profile measurement experiments in order to verify the accuracy of the developed profilometer for unevenness data collection and enlighten its benefits in monitoring of the local roads. Current profilometer measures longitudinal surface profile of the road while developed profilometer will measure longitudinal as well as lateral profile of the road simultaneously.

International Roughness Index (IRI), Lateral profile, Longitudinal surface profile, Profilometer, Unevenness

"Evaluation of Flexible Pavement Profile Using Developed Profilometer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.194-199, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901623.pdf

"Evaluation of Flexible Pavement Profile Using Developed Profilometer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp194-199, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901623.pdf