Name: Monika Raman

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ADDRESS :

76  Fiedler Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS66506 Tel No. (785) 532-5862 Fax No. (785) 532-7717 E-mail : monika@ksu.edu

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TITLE : Graduate Student/Research Assistant

DEGREE EARNED : Bachelor of Science from Maharaja Sayajirao University,India, 2001.

DEGREE PURSUED : MS in Civil Engineering 

PROJECT TITLE :

Adaptability of AASHTO Provisional Standards for Condition Survey in Kansas (K-TRAN Project: KSU-02-02)

SPONSOR :

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT)

OBJECTIVE :

The objective of this project is to investigate, test and quantify the effect of AASHTO provisional standards for pavement condition survey on KDOT practices. The project would oversee an effort to obtain pavement surface condition data by automated means following the AASHTO provisional standards. The contracted automated service must also be able to collect data over the sample locations in a manner consistent with KDOT existing practice, while using automated means. Consideration will be given to testing of the standards using manual methods. This project would evaluate the data collection processes and the data collected to provide information to help KDOT determine the costs and benefits associated with automated data collection and with incorporation of the provisional standards. The results of this research should allow for a possible follow up study by KDOT to evaluate the impacts of the different data and collection methods on NOS output.