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Roadscanners’ Road Doctor Survey Van
In today’s world, the quality and condition of traffic infrastructure plays a vital role in ensuring safety and efficiency. To address the challenges associated with monitoring and maintaining road conditions, Roadscanners offers an efficient and cost-effective solution: the Road Doctor® Survey Van (RDSV). This innovative system offers a comprehensive approach to road condition data collection, survey, and analysis, streamlining road network asset management. You can choose packages that your surveys require. RDCL, RDLS and GPR are available options.
Traditionally, road surveys have relied on destructive and time-consuming methods, often leading to delayed detection of critical issues. Road surfaces would deteriorate, cracks would appear, and significant damage would become evident before appropriate maintenance measures were taken. Roadscanners recognized the need for a proactive approach to road maintenance, one that identifies potential problems before they escalate, saving valuable resources and minimizing disruptions to road users.
New era in road survey technology
The Road Doctor® Survey Van represents a new era in road survey technology. This state-of-the-art vehicle, following a design philosophy of sensor-fusion, incorporates advanced technologies, namely GPR, LiDAR and 3D Accelerometer, into a user-friendly package. By integrating the unique and innovative Road Doctor® survey packages into a single system, the RDSV sets a new standard for road assessment.
The technologies selected for the RDSV ensure accurate and comprehensive surveys, enabling proactive maintenance strategies to extend pavement lifetime and improve usability of transportation infrastructure. Some infrastructure related applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) include detection of structures, layer thicknesses, moisture, and road construction quality control. LiDAR can be used to measure rutting, crossfall, ditch depths, road widths and surroundings (point cloud). A 3D Accelerometer measures pavement roughness (IRI class 3) along with wavelength-based roughness analysis. It is also possible to add an additional device to obtain IRI class 1 results.
Alongside the emergence of smart cities and intelligent transportation systems, the RDSV can play a key role in the next generation of intelligent asset management. By providing comprehensive data on road condition, the system empowers decision-makers to optimize maintenance schedules, allocate resources efficiently, and prioritize repairs based on accurate up-to-date assessments. This proactive approach not only improves road safety but also enhances the overall efficiency of transportation networks.
THE BENEFITS OF RDSV
Roadscanners’ RDSV has several excellent features, with high-quality multi-faceted non-destructive data collection in a single pass being a prominent capability. The multi-data approach facilitates focused maintenance planning which can extend pavement lifetime leading to substantial savings on traffic infrastructure costs.
The seamless integration of surface and subsurface information in Road Doctor software gives RDSV users a comprehensive understanding of the structures being investigated, leading to more accurate assessments and informed decision-making.
The inclusion of Camlink software with the RDSV ensures efficient and reliable management of survey data, with its GPS positioning and digital video (360° video optional) for every survey enables repeatability, comparability, and precise location tracking, thus further enhancing the overall survey process.
Road Doctor Survey Van represents new age road survey technology. We have designed it so that it uses only the needed detection methods that will probably renew how things have been surveyed before. In our vision, if you detect cracking, for example, you are too late. The road needs to be fixed before the surface begins to crack. Proactive maintenance is the key idea. Vehicle has been accompanied with selected items to be able to make the needed survey with suitable accuracy. RDSV is a key tool for the next generation intelligent asset management.
In order to get your own complete high tech system for road condition survey and analysis Roadscanners offers three options:
- Order a brand new fully equipped vehicle
- Ship your own vehicle to Finland and we will install the system here
- Install part of the system yourself and one of our engineers can come to finalize the installation, while at the same time providing training to your staff