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Appendix B - Service Providers Survey Questionnaire
Pages 72-76

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From page 72...
... For purposes of this survey, quality control activities are those used to control the data collection activities. Quality Management: The overarching system of policies and procedures that govern the performance of quality assurance and control activities; i.e., the totality of the effort to ensure quality in the data.
From page 73...
... Yes No Surface Distress Smoothness Frictional Properties Structural Capacity 5) If you collect pavement distress data, what types of distress data collection methods do you employ?
From page 74...
... (Check all that apply) Yes No Calibration of equipment and/or analysis criteria before the data collection Testing of known "control" segments before data collection Periodic testing of known "control" segments during production Periodic testing of blind "control" segments during production Verification of sample data by an independent consultant Verification of the post-survey processing software/procedures Cross-measurements; i.e., random assignment of repeated segments to different data collection teams or automatic measuring devices Statistical/software routines that check for inconsistencies in the data Software routines that check if the data is within the expected ranges Software routines that check for missing road segments or data elements Comparison with existing time-series data
From page 75...
... Less than 2% 2 to 5% 6 to 10% More than 10% 11) If you use automatic/semi-automatic equipment for distress data collection, have you experienced difficulties with matching the results of the automatic surveys with benchmark data collected manually?
From page 76...
... 15) How many years of experience do data collection personnel have on average?


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