This document discusses plans to test different road building materials and designs to determine what creates the most durable roads. Sensors will be placed on test blocks made of different soils and road building materials that are subjected to varying weather conditions like wind, water, and traffic over time. The results will be analyzed to understand which material combinations last the longest under which conditions. This will help planners design and repair roads that are best suited to the local environment and reduce the formation of potholes over time.

1. Building Better Roads
An idea requiring validation

2. Roads
• We use roads for transportation
• Roads are made on land and rest on soil
• Good roads last longer and facilitate fast movement
• Bad roads cause inconveniences , slowdown movement and create
possibility of accidents
• Pot holes occurring soon after a new road has been built is a sign of poor
quality road
• If the frequency of occurrency of potholes is high, then road quality is bad
• If small pot holes are becoming larger at a fast rate, then road quality is
bad

3. Preparation for assessing road quality
• Store soils and road building materials of different types
• Store trolley with capacity to hold different weights and which can move at different
speeds
• Setup of quality testing lab and place experts with statistical knowledge
• Create blocks of 10 m X 10 m X 10 m to be placed in the laboratory setup
• On top of each block , put provisions for getting light and water. The roof and one wall
could be of sliding type for availing natural sunlight and air . The roof to have have
inbuilt water sprayers and artificial light .
• Also there is to be a sliding wall one side for movement of personnel and working with
natural air . Variable speed air blowers to be put side walls.
• Setup facilities for easy recording of road conditions throughout the different tests of
light, wind, water and load
• Providing crane to lift a block from testing room and replacing it with another empty
block after testing
• Providing sensors on sides of the blocks

4. Testing for road quality
• Preparing for the experiments
• Types of soil to be used
• Type of road to be build
• Wind speeds to be considered
• Intensity of rains and water logging depth to be considered
• Different surface area of trolley
• Different loads to be tested through trolley
• Different speed ranges
• Categorisation of pot hole as per surface area
• Categorisation of pot holes as per depth
• Time blocks such as 30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hr,….100 hrs for assessing usability

5. Testing for road quality
• Doing the experiments
• Capturing data on conditions and their effects
• Putting results in database
• Planning for roads (new and repair)
• Place data on minimum road quality and other requirements and the software
suggests the composition
• Test as per the proposed composition on a new block and validate
• Testing an existing road
• Note down details about existing road surface and other characteristics
• Software will provide possible conditions that lead to this state
• Compare results that are associated with the material of road and soil taken from
site to understand the conditions assumed while building the road