Since 1987, road surface condition data has been collected in an organized way in Sweden. In the past, the data collection was done within the Road Administration. Today this is done by private companies, on commercial basis following the result of a procurement process. The improvement and development of equipment is mainly to be done by the commercial actors. There is a need for a European or worldwide standard. This report will address how to choose equipment and operator with respect to requirements such as necessary accuracy and data quality and suggestions of possible future measures and equipment as well as a proposal for a worldwide test procedure standard.