Observação de pavimentos rodoviários com suporte a um sistema de informação digital: estudo de caso - estradas do Município de Maputo

Abstract

This assignment presents a proposal for a digital information system, which will serve as a database to support the operational and strategic management of conservation/rehabilitation of the road network in the Municipality of Maputo, serving as a basis for prioritizing the conservation/rehabilitation or reconstruction of Maputo city road pavements, based on the evaluation of the pavement condition, pavement serviceability, analysis of priorate conditions and monitoring the pavements that will have suffered, at a given time, an intervention, in a context in which the administration of the Maputo Municipal Council must maintain, improve and expand the network, while managing the expectations of users, who expect increasingly good levels of service in terms of comfort, safety and economy. A case study was carried out on several sections of several roads in the network of the Municipality of Maputo, where surveys of pathologies, was also carried an avaluation pavement condition through state pavement parameters, such as: pavement condition index (PCI), pavement serviceability index (PSI). And then was defined the prioritizing of those pavement sections through the priority index (IP) sudied by Travakoli (1992).