4 Pavement Data 1 Report New York State Department of Transportation 20 CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................ i Location / Identification ........................................................... ii Physical Characteristics ......................................................... iii Traffic Information .................................................................. v Condition Information ............................................................. v Other Data .............................................................................. ix Glossary ................................................................................. xi Region/County Abbreviations ................................................. xii New York State Parkways by Jurisdiction .............................. xiii Notes for the New York State Thruway .................................. xiv Pavement Data Report ........................................................... 1 This report was prepared by Pavement Data Services, New York State Department of Transportation. Inquiries or requests for information should be directed to: Pavement Data Services, NYSDOT, 50 Wolf Road POD 42, Albany, New York 12232 (518-457-1965). A pdf file of this report is available for download from the Pavement Management page of the Department’s website at www.nysdot.gov. Hard copies of the report are no longer created. 2014 Pavement Data Report for New York State Highways INTRODUCTION The New York State Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, collects a variety of information used to assess the condition of highway pavements and to describe the physical characteristics of roadways. Since 1981, a windshield survey has been used to assign a pavement surface rating (using a 1 to 10 rating scale) to describe the severity and extent of pavement surface distress for each segment of highway. The windshield survey also is used to inventory the physical characteristics of the roadway, such as pavement type, shoulder width, and number of lanes. The surface rating survey is conducted annually throughout the summer on 100 percent of the State Touring Route, Reference Route and the New York State Thruway systems. The Touring Route system consists of numbered highways that are owned by the State, and certain roads not owned by the State but signed as Touring Route highways for continuity in driving. The Reference Route system (commonly called “900 Routes” because of their numbering convention) is comprised of roads usually owned by the State but are not part of the signed route system. These Special Note: I-86 / Route 17 – The conversion of State Route 17 to highways are typically parkways, service roads, roads no longer part Interstate 86 from the Pennsylvania State Line to I-87 in Rockland of the Touring Route due to realignment, and various other roads County (421 miles) has progressed as follows: under State ownership. The Thruway system, which includes the I-87 and I-90 mainline and several spurs (Garden State Parkway 1999 PA State Line to Exit 48 in Steuben County Connector, the Berkshire Spur, and portions of I-95, I-287 and I-190) 2006 Exit 75 to Exit 79 in Broome County is not considered part of the Touring Route, but is integrated in this 2007 Exit 48 in Steuben County to Exit 56 in Chemung County Report for completeness and convenient reference. Additional discussion of the Thruway system can be found in the Appendix. In this Report and the associated data files, the Route 17 sections are listed as an overlap with Route I-86 where the conversions have The Department also collects ride quality (IRI), rut depth and occurred. fault/bump height data, and roadway geometric properties such as radius of curve, cross slope and grade. This data is collected A description of the information contained in the various columns of annually on the Interstates, including the Thruway, and about every this report is presented below. Following the column descriptions is a two to three years on the remainder of the highway network. This list of some items included in the Pavement Data Extract electronic report presents the most recent pavement condition and roadway file but not included in this report due to space limitations. inventory information available for the reporting year. i LOCATION / IDENTIFICATION 3. County Name (Cnty Name) 1. Route Number (Route No.) The three letter abbreviated county name in which the highway section is contained appears in this column. Please refer to the The Route Number contains from one to three numerals and, Glossary for the definitions of the abbreviations. where required, one alphabetic suffix. Some Route Numbers are preceded by ‘US’ for a national route, ‘NY’ for a state route. The 4. Region & County Identification (Reg/Cnty) Glossary contains additional descriptions of this field. The region/county numbers are the one-digit DOT region alpha- 2. Qualifier numeric code with the specific one-digit county numeric code which has been assigned to each county, in alphabetic order Occasionally more than one roadway shares the same US Route within that region. For example, Essex County is identified as 12 number and signing, where one is the "official" route and the (second county in Region 1). It should be noted that since the others serve specialized purposes. To distinguish between the region code is a one-digit code, Region 10 and Region 11 are routes, the route number signing is "qualified" by a special designated as “0” and “N”, respectively. designation such as “Business” or “Truck.” Qualifiers are rare in New York State. An example is the combination of US Route 62 5. County Order (Located on first record of each county) and US Route 62 Business. These are two separate routes with the "Business" qualifier creating the distinction between the two. The county order identification is a two-digit code that is part of The route signing qualifier codes used in this report are: the location referencing system. It is 01 at the beginning of a route in the county in which the route originates and increases by one each time the route crosses a county line, whether it is Code Description entering the county for the first time or has previously traversed 1 No Qualifier that county. When a county line is crossed, the mileage reported on the route is re-zeroed at that point. Therefore, with every 2 Alternate county order change, there will be a re-zeroing of the route 3 Business Route mileage. 4 Bypass Business 6. Primary EMP (End Milepoint) 5 Spur The End Milepoint is the length of the route in miles from the 6 Loop beginning of the route or the last county line crossed to the specified location, traveling in the primary direction. 7 Proposed 8 Temporary 7. Reverse BMP (Reverse Milepoint) 9 Truck Route The Reverse Milepoint is the length of the route in miles from the end of the route or the last county line crossed to the specified 10 None of the above location, traveling in the reverse direction. ii PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 8. End Reference Marker (End Reference Marker) 1. Segment Length (Segment Lgth) Reference markers are small roadside signs used to mark a specific location along a highway. These markers consist of a The segment length is the length of the individual segment green shield with three rows containing up to four characters on expressed in miles and hundredths of a mile. each row. The first row lists the route number when the route was first designated (reference marker characters do not change 2. Total Number of Travel Lanes (Total Lanes) even if the route number is changed). The second row contains the region/county numbers and the county order number. The Listed in this column is the number of travel lanes present on the third row contains the control segment number and the first three roadway in both directions, not including turning lanes, digits of the end milepoint, expressed in tenths of a mile, for that acceleration / deceleration lanes or shoulders. control segment. The control segment is no longer used in the Department’s linear reference system, but the control segment 3. Number of Roadways (Roadways) breaks (at city boundaries) remain part of the historical reference marker designation. The reference marker legends listed in this A roadway is considered divided, and therefore two roadways, if column represent the reference marker nearest to the end of the it has a flush median wider than four feet, another type of median respective section. (see Median Type) or a distinct separation between the travel directions such as one-way streets through a city. 9. State Highway Number (SH No.) Code Number of Roadways The state highway number is usually the contract number under which a section of highway was originally built, or the number 1 Undivided roadway assigned to a section of highway upon takeover by the 2 Divided roadway Department from another political subdivision. The newest SH numbers are a sequential number by year (e.g., 2008-1). If the 4. Paved Shoulder Width (Paved Shldr Width) route is on a city or village street, county or town road, parkway or toll bridge, the following abbreviations are used: The paved shoulder width is the width of the paved area immediately outside (to the right) of the white fog line on the Abbreviation Description pavement. Paved areas of one foot or less are considered to be a paved shoulder width of zero. The area outside the paved area CTYST City Street is described by the Roadside Type