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The international roughness index (IRI) is a standardized measure of pavement smoothness (and differs from NAASRA by a simple conversion formula). The IRI is used by road agencies to assess the condition of roads and to prioritise maintenance and rehabilitation projects. The IRI is also used by vehicle manufacturers to test the ride quality of their vehicles.
Our client was frequently asked to level off, or mill out, bumps, lips, and joins in roads to improve surface smoothness and ride quality. Corrective action comes at a cost and the process itself often doesn't eliminate bumps, lips, and joins, but rather redistributes them; for example, milling out one join in a road introduces at least two new joins on either side of the original. The natural, and obvious, question for our client was: "will this action actually improve the smoothness of the road surface, and is this action worth the money it costs?"
At Romulus Tech we built a desktop app which calculates the international roughness index (IRI) from laser profilometry data. Our system allows our client's engineers to simulate the effects of corrective action on the IRI and determine if the action, and its cost, is justified.
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