PURPOSES : To efficiently manage pavements, a systematic pavement management system must be established based on regional characteristics. Suppose that the future conditions of a pavement section can be predicted based on data obtained at present. In this case, a more reasonable road maintenance strategy should be established. Hence, a prediction model of the annual surface distress (SD) change for national highway pavements in Gangwon-do, Korea is developed based on influencing factors. METHODS : To develop the model, pavement performance data and influencing factors were obtained. Exploratory data analysis was performed to analyze the data acquired, and the results show that the data were preprocessed. The variables used for model development were selected via correlation analysis, where variables such as surface distress, international roughness index, daily temperature range, and heat wave days were used. Best subset regression was performed, where the candidate model was selected from all possible subsets based on certain criteria. The final model was selected based on an algorithm developed for rational model selection. The sensitivity of the annual SD change was analyzed based on the variables of the final model. RESULTS : The result of the sensitivity analysis shows that the annual SD change is affected by the variables in the following order: surface distress ˃ heat wave days ˃ daily temperature range ˃ international roughness index. CONCLUSIONS : An annual SD change prediction model is developed by considering the present performance, traffic volume, and climatic conditions. The model can facilitate the establishment of a reasonable road maintenance strategy. The prediction accuracy can be improved by obtaining additional data, such as the construction quality, material properties, and pavement thickness.

PURPOSES : The surface distress of asphalt pavements is one of the major factors affecting the safety of road users. The aim of this study was to analyze the factors influencing the occurrence of surface distress and statistically predict its annual change to contribute to more reasonable asphalt pavement management using the data periodically collected by the national highway pavement data management system. METHODS : In this study, the factors that were expected to influence the surface distress were determined by reviewing the literature. The normality was secured by changing the forms of the variables to make the distribution of the variables got closer to normal distribution. In addition, min-max normalization was performed to minimize the effect of the unit and magnitude of the candidate independent variables on the dependent variable. The final candidate independent variables were determined by analyzing the correlation between the annual surface distress change and each candidate independent variable. In addition, a prediction model was developed by performing data grouping and multi-regression analysis. RESULTS : An annual surface distress change prediction model was developed using present surface distress, age, and below 0 ℃ days as the independent variables. As a result of sensitivity analysis, the surface distress affected the annual surface distress change the most. The positive correlation between the dependent variable and each independent variable demonstrated engineering and statistical meaningfulness of the prediction model. CONCLUSIONS : The surface distress in the future can be predicted by applying the annual surface distress prediction model to the national highway asphalt pavement sections with survey data. In addition, the prediction model can be applied to the national highway pavement condition index (NHPCI) evaluating the national highway asphalt pavement conditions to be used in the prediction of future NHPCI.

본 연구에서는 국도 아스팔트 포장의 포장파손예측모델을 개발하기 위한 장기 공용성 관측 구간을 선정하였다. 관측 구간의 선정을 위하여 신설 포장 구간 및 덧씌우기 포장 구간에 대한 실험계획표를 작성하였고, 실험계획표의 각 셀에 해당되는 구간은 국도 데이터 베이스를 이용하여 예비 관측 구간을 선정하였고, 현장 조사를 통하여 최종 관측 구간을 선정하였다. 선정된 관측 구간의 단위 연장은 200m이며, 신설 포장 구간 47개소 및 덧씌우기 포장 구간 48개소가 선정되었다. 선정된 관측 구간에 대하여 시간의 변화 또는 교통량의 변화에 따른 포장 상태를 바탕으로 균열 및 러팅에 관한 1차 분석 작업을 진행하였다. 향후 포장 관련 다양한 정보가 데이터 베이스에 구축된 후 통계분석을 통하여 포장 파손 예측 모형이 개발되어야 할 것이다.

본 연구에서는 국도 아스팔트 포장의 포장파손예측모델을 개발하기 위한 장기 공용성 관측 구간을 선정하였다. 관측 구간의 선정을 위하여 신설 포장 구간 및 덧씌우기 포장 구간에 대한 실험계획표를 작성하였고, 실험계획표의 각 셀에 해당되는 구간은 국도 데이터 베이스를 이용하여 예비 관측 구간을 선정하였고, 현장 조사를 통하여 최종 관측 구간을 선정하였다. 선정된 관측 구간의 단위 연장은 200m이며, 신설 포장 구간 47개소 및 덧씌우기 포장 구간 48개소가 선정되었다. 선정된 관측 구간에 대하여 시간의 변화 또는 교통량의 변화에 따른 포장 상태를 바탕으로 균열 및 러팅에 관한 1차 분석 작업을 진행하였다. 향후 포장 관련 다양한 정보가 데이터 베이스에 구축된 후 통계분석을 통하여 포장 파손 예측 모형이 개발되어야 할 것이다.

Purpose – This current study will investigate the average financial ratio of top and failed five-star hotels in the Jeju area. A total of 14 financial ratio variables are utilized. This study aims to; first, assess financial ratio of the first-class hotels in Jeju to establishing variables, second, develop distress prediction model for the first-class hotels in Jeju district by using logit analysis and third, evaluate distress prediction capacity for the first-class hotels in Jeju district by using logit analysis. Research design, data, and methodology – The sample was collected from year 2015 and 14 financial ratios of 12 first-class hotels in Jeju district. The results from the samples were analyzed by t-test, and the independent variables were chosen. This was an empirical study where the distress prediction model was evaluated by logit analysis. This current research has focused on critically analyzing and differentiating between the top and failed hotels in the Jeju area by utilizing the 14 financial ratio variables. Results – The verification result of the accuracy estimated by logit analysis has shown to indicate that the distress prediction model’s distress prediction capacity was 83.3%. In order to extract the factors that differentiated the top hotels in the Jeju area from the failed hotels among the 14 chosen, the analysis of t-black was utilized by independent variables. Logit analysis was also used in this study. As a result, it was observed that 5 variables were statistically significant and are included in the logit analysis for discernment of top and failed hotels in the Jeju area. Conclusions – The distress prediction press’ prediction capability was compared in this research analysis. The distress prediction press prediction capability was shown to range from 75-85% by logit analysis from a previous study. In this current research, the study’s prediction capacity was shown to be 83.33%. It was considered a high number and was found to belong to the range of the previous study’s prediction capacity range. From a practical perspective, the capacity of the assessment of the distress prediction model in the top and failed hotels in the Jeju area was considered to be a prominent factor in applications of future hotel appraisal.