Fugro’s pavement structure surveys for Highways England reach new milestone

Fugro has started scanning structural pavement condition data under a 3-year contract, TRASS 3. It is Highways England’s largest ever outsourced contract for pavement structural condition data and is valued at £1.3 million.
Since autumn 2014, Fugro has been carrying out Traffic Speed Structural Surveys (TRASS) and the asset integrity specialist has collected and processed data on pavement strength from slip roads and lane 1 of England’s strategic road network. The current work involves data collection from lane 2 using Highways England’s Traffic Speed Deflectometer (TSD), a 20 tonne articulated survey lorry which assesses the structural condition of road pavements using state-of-the-art, contactless Doppler laser technology. …