During previous meeting:

Speed
Co2

IRI

Noise

No. of Vehicle

Literature Review:
1. How to quantify human whole body vibration experienced by the driver
and the passengers during the ride in relation to health and comfort. It
is a relationship between road roughness, speeds, and vertical human
body vibration. This relationship could be used to convert limits for
whole body vibration to corresponding approximate limits for IRI. Also,
if a road agency does not get a fair budget with respect to actual road
repair works , the posted maximum speed for road users could be
restricted until road repair has been funded and executed. The need of
vulnerable people who often use public transport or emergency
ambulance should be considered in policies regarding road roughness
limits. Ambulance patients are more exposed to vibration energy.
2. Tobit model: This model shows that a variety of factors relating to
pavement condition and quality are found to significantly influence
motor vehicle accident rates. These factors include IRI, rut depth,
geometrical effects, volume and trucks have significant impact on
accident rates. Applying the approach to other geographic areas and to
non-interstate road segments would potentially provide more
information on the effect that these factors have on road accident
rates.
3. This study analyses the presence of public transport at day time and
night time as a significant and independent predictor of high noise
annoyance. Future works should concern the presence, type and the
number of public transport in order to reduce noise in urban areas.
4. This paper studies the impact of road roughness on vehicle operating
costs, safety , comfort and speed of travel.
5. This paper studies the influence of road surface condition on traffic
safety. In the accident model, the rut depth greater than 10 mm will
not have any significant impact on traffic safety. The higher the IRI
value , the higher the accident risk.
6. This paper studies the influence of pavement conditions on traffic
accidents. Pavement distress variables such as IRI, rut depth, and PSI
are used to predict accidents.
7. This paper studied the relationship between traffic accident and IRI and
rut depth. In addition , it studied whether a deep rut lowers the flow
rate of traffic than a shallow rut.
8. This paper found out that on better roads , accident rate is higher than
on worse roads. In summer, accident rate drops as rut depth increases
while in winter the reverse is true.
9. This paper implements a BBN model to develop road performance
index(RPI) that can be used to prioritize the roads in a network system
to meet high level management objectives. Four performance

objective are selected to develop a RPI: 1. Pavement condition 2. Road

safety 3.environment impacts 4. Capacity.
10.
The analysis of data shows that with the same speed, motor
vehicles on urban roads have different noise levels because of different
IRI. The motor vehicle noise increases as the IRI increases. It is
concluded that pavement roughness of urban roads does contribute to
noise in speed range between 20-50 km/hour with same IRI, and the
noise level on cement pavement is greater than on asphalt.