PaveKeep knowledge base https://pavekeep.com.au/ 2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z An unsurveyed road is unknown, not zero https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/unsurveyed-road-unknown-not-zero 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z How gaps in condition data distort council road reporting — and a five-point check for your own figures. What a road condition survey can and can’t tell you https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-a-survey-can-tell-you 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Every measurement has a spread. Knowing how large it is stops a council mistaking a change of rater for a change in the road. Most local roads are unsealed, and they fail differently https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/unsealed-roads-fail-differently 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Three in five kilometres of Australian local road are unsealed. Sealed-road methods get their condition, costs and priorities wrong. Fix the worst first, or keep good roads good? https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/worst-first-or-keep-good-roads-good 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z The road that draws the most complaints is rarely the best use of the next dollar — and the evidence for that is mostly American and decades old. Condition can look steady while value drains away https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/condition-steady-value-draining 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z A condition chart says where the network is, not whether this year’s budget is keeping up with this year’s wear. Three ratios do. Evidence that exists before you need it https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/evidence-before-you-need-it 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Funding bodies and auditors ask about the past. The only time to create that evidence is before anyone asks for it. PCI and IRI: what each measures, and why you need both https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/pci-and-iri 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Two numbers describe the same road and disagree, and both are right. Which one answers which question. What a road asset management plan has to be able to prove https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-an-asset-plan-must-prove 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z A plan is a document; what survives review is the evidence under it. The five things a reviewer reaches for. Routine, preventive, rehabilitation: three kinds of road work https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/kinds-of-road-maintenance 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Austroads names three kinds of maintenance. The middle one is what councils under pressure stop doing first. Putting road condition on a map https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/road-condition-on-a-map 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z A spreadsheet of segment scores answers a question nobody in the room is asking. The question is which roads. How road deterioration is modelled, and what a model cannot tell you https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/how-deterioration-is-modelled 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Projecting a network ten years forward is arithmetic, not prophecy — and most councils hold two of the five inputs. Showing a council what a budget buys, and what the next one down costs https://pavekeep.com.au/knowledge/what-a-budget-buys 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z Condition charts do not win the budget argument. A scenario pair, with the roads named, is what changes it.