ABSTRACT
A Pavement Condition Index (PCI), for many Urban Pavement Management Systems (UPMS), is the main quality indicator of segments of the urban roadway network. This work considers the distress types for flexible pavements of the SHRP Program (Strategic Highway Research Program), as well as the way to evaluate the severity and the extent to which they show up at the pavement surface, but proposing a new method for determining an Urban Pavement Condition Index (UPCI), which considers the particular conditions of design, materials, construction techniques, quality control and policies of maintenance and rehabilitation of the city in which the UPMS is being implemented. The calculation of the UPCI is developed in three stages: determination of weighing factors for each distress type, from questionnaires answered by professionals in the transport infrastructure area; determination of weighing factors to account for the severity of the distress type; determination of the weighing factors to account for the extent of the distress type. The case study developed in this research work used 10,402 of a total of 111,497 segments of the Federal District of Brazil, distributed among thirty administrative regions, including Brasilia, which were evaluated subjectively and objectively, in the years 2010 and 2012, by the Company for the Urbanization of the New Capital of Brazil (NOVACAP).
