Modern road profilers deliver long measurement series of road surface characteristics such as IRI or rut depth. These measurement series have to be "chopped up" into parts of similar values in order to summarize the information they contain and to generate road sections that are meaningfully handled as units in pavement management systems. Three algorithms for this purpose are described and compared with respect to methodological aspects as well as data requirements.
Reprint from 2nd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference, 21-23 March 2004, Berlin Germany. (Paper no. 48)