TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 334: Automated Pavement Distress Collection Techniques examines highway community practice and research and development efforts in the automated collection and processing of pavement condition data techniques typically used in network-level pavement management.  The scope of the study covered all phases of automated pavement data collection and processing for pavement surface distress, pavement ride quality, rut-depth measurements, and joint-faulting measurements. Included in the scope were technologies employed, contracting issues, quality assurance, costs and benefits of automated techniques, monitoring frequencies and sampling protocols in use, degree of adoption of national standards for data collection, and contrast between the state of the art and the state of the practice.  This topic is published at https://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=4370