International Peer-Reviewed JournalOpen AccessISSN 2456-8880
irejournals@gmail.com+91-7433024337

Home / Current Issue / Paper 1722674

1722674 Vol 3 · Issue 1 Download Paper

Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria

Olayemi Bolaji Oladimeji Basit Alaka Oluwabusola Ajayi Ridwan Tiamiyu

Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology  ·  Area of research: Highway and Drainage Engineering

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674

Abstract

Roadside drainage carries the flood risk of Nigerian cities and its condition is neither inventoried nor rated, so an agency that would prioritize maintenance has nothing to work on. The available protocols were written for closed culvert barrels and piped sewers, not for the open lined channels of a tropical urban arterial. This paper develops a five-point rating protocol for such assets, paired with a design that rates a fifth of the inventory twice and reports agreement disaggregated. Both were applied to an inventory of 949 assets along 23.99 km of arterial alignment in Osogbo and Ilorin. Pooled agreement looks usable: Cohen’s κ is 0.561, quadratically weighted κ is 0.841 and Krippendorff’s α is 0.842, with the teams within one grade on 98.0 percent. Disaggregated it does not. Agreement on covered drains falls to 0.277 against 0.682 for open lined channels, and cutting the statistic by city rather than asset type invites the wrong diagnosis entirely. The general result is arithmetic: a pooled statistic can conceal the subgroup in which an instrument has failed, and a pooled spatial test can too. We recommend that no condition dataset be published without a disaggregated agreement statistic, that surface-derived grades be used in bands rather than at a point, and that covered assets be coded as unassessed.

Keywords

drainage condition assessment, culvert inspection, inter-rater reliability, ordinal regression, urban flooding, asset management, nigeria

References

[1] ActionAid International. 2006. Unjust Waters: Climate Change, Flooding and the Protection of Poor Urban Communities: Experiences from Six African Cities. ActionAid International, International Emergencies and Conflict Team. https://actionaid.org/sites/default/files/unjust_waters_-_climate_change_flooding_and_the_protection_of_poor_urban_communities_experiences_from_6_african_cities.pdf.

[2] Adelekan, Ibidun O. 2010. “Vulnerability of Poor Urban Coastal Communities to Flooding in Lagos, Nigeria.” Environment and Urbanization 22 (2): 433–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247810380141.

[3] Aderogba, Kunle A., M. Oredipe, S. Oderinde, and T. Afelumo. 2012. “Challenges of Poor Drainage Systems and Floods in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria.” International Journal of Social Sciences and Education 2 (1): 413–34.

[4] Agbola, Babatunde S., Olalekan Ajayi, Omolara J. Taiwo, and Bashir W. Wahab. 2012. “The August 2011 Flood in Ibadan, Nigeria: Anthropogenic Causes and Consequences.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 3: 207–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-012-0021-3.

[5] Agbonkhese, Onoyan-Usina, Godwin Lazhi Yisa, and Paul Itomi-ushi Daudu. 2013. “Bad Drainage and Its Effects on Road Pavement Conditions in Nigeria.” Civil and Environmental Research 3 (10): 7–15.

[6] Aliyu, Halima I., and Zaharadeen Suleiman. 2016. “Flood Menace in Kaduna Metropolis: Impacts, Remedial and Management Strategies.” Science World Journal 11 (2): 16–22.

[7] Arnoult, James D. 1986. Culvert Inspection Manual: Supplement to the Bridge Inspector’s Training Manual. FHWA-IP-86-2. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68046.

[8] Ayoade, John O., and F. O. Akintola. 1980. “Public Perception of Flood Hazard in Two Nigerian Cities.” Environment International 4 (4): 277–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-4120(80)90079-3.

[9] Bianchini, Andrea, Paola Bandini, and David W. Smith. 2010. “Interrater Reliability of Manual Pavement Distress Evaluations.” Journal of Transportation Engineering 136 (2): 165–72. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2010)136:2(165).

[10] Bogus, Susan M., Giovanni C. Migliaccio, and Arturo A. Cordova. 2010. “Assessment of Data Quality for Evaluations of Manual Pavement Distress.” Transportation Research Record 2170. https://doi.org/10.3141/2170-01.

[11] Brant, Rollin. 1990. “Assessing Proportionality in the Proportional Odds Model for Ordinal Logistic Regression.” Biometrics 46 (4): 1171–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/2532457.

[12] Cahoon, Joel E., Duane Baker, and Jodi Carson. 2002. “Factors for Rating Condition of Culverts for Repair or Replacement Needs.” Transportation Research Record 1814 (1): 197–202. https://doi.org/10.3141/1814-23.

[13] Chughtai, Faisal, and Tarek Zayed. 2008. “Infrastructure Condition Prediction Models for Sustainable Sewer Pipelines.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 22 (5): 333–41. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2008)22:5(333).

[14] Cohen, Jacob. 1960. “A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales.” Educational and Psychological Measurement 20 (1): 37–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/001316446002000104.

[15] Cohen, Jacob. 1968. “Weighted Kappa: Nominal Scale Agreement with Provision for Scaled Disagreement or Partial Credit.” Psychological Bulletin 70 (4): 213–20. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0026256.

[16] Dirksen, J., F. H. L. R. Clemens, H. Korving, et al. 2013. “The Consistency of Visual Sewer Inspection Data.” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 9 (3): 214–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2010.541265.

[17] Efron, Bradley, and Robert J. Tibshirani. 1993. An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman and Hall.

[18] Estes, Allen C., and Dan M. Frangopol. 2003. “Updating Bridge Reliability Based on Bridge Management Systems Visual Inspection Results.” Journal of Bridge Engineering 8 (6): 374–82. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2003)8:6(374).

[19] Etuonovbe, Antonia K. 2011. “The Devastating Effect of Flooding in Nigeria.” FIG Working Week 2011: Bridging the Gap Between Cultures (Marrakech, Morocco).

[20] Hadipriono, Fabian C., Richard E. Larew, and Oh-Young Lee. 1988. “Service Life Assessment of Concrete Pipe Culverts.” Journal of Transportation Engineering 114 (2): 209–21. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(1988)114:2(209).

[21] Hayes, Andrew F., and Klaus Krippendorff. 2007. “Answering the Call for a Standard Reliability Measure for Coding Data.” Communication Methods and Measures 1 (1): 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312450709336664.

[22] Karley, Noah Kofi. 2009. “Flooding and Physical Planning in Urban Areas in West Africa: Situational Analysis of Accra, Ghana.” Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 4 (13): 25–41.

[23] Landis, J. Richard, and Gary G. Koch. 1977. “The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data.” Biometrics 33 (1): 159–74. https://doi.org/10.2307/2529310.

[24] Madanat, Samer, Rabi Mishalani, and Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim. 1995. “Estimation of Infrastructure Transition Probabilities from Condition Rating Data.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems 1 (2): 120–25. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(1995)1:2(120).

[25] Masada, Teruhisa, Shad M. Sargand, Bashar Tarawneh, Gayle F. Mitchell, and Doug Gruver. 2006. “New Inspection and Risk Assessment Methods for Metal Highway Culverts in Ohio.” Transportation Research Record 1976: 141–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198106197600115.

[26] McCullagh, Peter. 1980. “Regression Models for Ordinal Data.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B 42 (2): 109–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1980.tb01109.x.

[27] McHugh, Mary L. 2012. “Interrater Reliability: The Kappa Statistic.” Biochemia Medica 22 (3): 276–82.

[28] Micevski, Tom, George Kuczera, and Peter Coombes. 2002. “Markov Model for Storm Water Pipe Deterioration.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems 8 (2): 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2002)8:2(49).

[29] Mishalani, Rabi G., and Samer M. Madanat. 2002. “Computation of Infrastructure Transition Probabilities Using Stochastic Duration Models.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems 8 (4): 139–48. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2002)8:4(139).

[30] Mitchell, Gayle F., Teruhisa Masada, Shad M. Sargand, and Bashar Tarawneh. 2005. Risk Assessment and Update of Inspection Procedures for Culverts. Ohio Department of Transportation / Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37981.

[31] Mohan, Prashanth, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee. 2008. “Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions Using Mobile Smartphones.” Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys ’08), 323–36. https://doi.org/10.1145/1460412.1460444.

[32] Moran, P. A. P. 1950. “Notes on Continuous Stochastic Phenomena.” Biometrika 37 (1/2): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/2332142.

[33] New York State Department of Transportation. 2006. Culvert Inspection Field Guide. New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Maintenance. https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-maintenance/repository/CULVERT%20INSPECTION%20FIELD%20GUIDE%201-18-06.pdf.

[34] Oguntala, A. B., and J. S. Oguntoyinbo. 1982. “Urban Flooding in Ibadan: A Diagnosis of the Problem.” Urban Ecology 7 (1): 39–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4009(82)90004-3.

[35] Olaniran, Olusegun J. 1983. “Flood Generating Mechanisms at Ilorin, Nigeria.” GeoJournal 7 (3): 271–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209065.

[36] Phares, Brent M., Benjamin A. Graybeal, Dennis D. Rolander, Mark E. Moore, and Glenn A. Washer. 2001. “Reliability and Accuracy of Routine Inspection of Highway Bridges.” Transportation Research Record 1749. https://doi.org/10.3141/1749-13.

[37] Phares, Brent M., Glenn A. Washer, Dennis D. Rolander, Benjamin A. Graybeal, and Mark Moore. 2004. “Routine Highway Bridge Inspection Condition Documentation Accuracy and Reliability.” Journal of Bridge Engineering 9 (4): 403–13. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2004)9:4(403).

[38] Sairam, Nivedita, Sudhagar Nagarajan, and Scott Ornitz. 2016. “Development of Mobile Mapping System for 3D Road Asset Inventory.” Sensors 16 (3): 367. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16030367.

[39] Salem, Osama, Baris Salman, and Mohammad Najafi. 2012. “Culvert Asset Management Practices and Deterioration Modeling.” Transportation Research Record 2285: 10–18. https://doi.org/10.3141/2285-02.

[40] Santani, Darshan, Jidraph Njuguna, Tierra Bills, Aisha W. Bryant, Reginald Bryant, et al. 2015. “CommuniSense: Crowdsourcing Road Hazards in Nairobi.” Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’15), 445–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/2785830.2785837.

[41] Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program. 2009. RONET: Road Network Evaluation Tools, Version 2.0 – User’s Guide. SSATP Working Paper No. 89A. SSATP / World Bank.

[42] Transportation Research Board. 2015. Service Life of Culverts. NCHRP Synthesis 474. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22140.

[43] Wald, Abraham, and Jacob Wolfowitz. 1940. “On a Test Whether Two Samples Are from the Same Population.” The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 11 (2): 147–62. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177731909.

[44] Water Research Centre. 2004. Manual of Sewer Condition Classification. 4th ed. WRc plc.

[45] Wells, Timothy, and Robert E. Melchers. 2014. “An Observation-Based Model for Corrosion of Concrete Sewers Under Aggressive Conditions.” Cement and Concrete Research 61–62: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2014.03.004.

How to cite this paper

Olayemi Bolaji, Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Oluwabusola Ajayi, Ridwan Tiamiyu "Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 3 Issue 1 2019 Page 663-683 https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674
Olayemi Bolaji, Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Oluwabusola Ajayi, Ridwan Tiamiyu "Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, vol. 3, no. 1, Jul. 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674
Olayemi Bolaji, Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Oluwabusola Ajayi, Ridwan Tiamiyu (2019). Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria. Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 3(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674
Olayemi Bolaji, Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Oluwabusola Ajayi, Ridwan Tiamiyu "Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, vol. 3, no. 1, Jul. 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674
@article{1722674,
      author = {Olayemi Bolaji, Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Oluwabusola Ajayi, Ridwan Tiamiyu},
      title = {Field Condition Assessment of Roadside Drainage and Culvert Structures on Urban Arterials in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2019},
      volume = {3},
      number = {1},
      pages = {663-683},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1722674.pdf},
      abstract = {Roadside drainage carries the flood risk of Nigerian cities and its condition is neither inventoried nor rated, so an agency that would prioritize maintenance has nothing to work on. The available protocols were written for closed culvert barrels and piped sewers, not for the open lined channels of a tropical urban arterial. This paper develops a five-point rating protocol for such assets, paired with a design that rates a fifth of the inventory twice and reports agreement disaggregated. Both were applied to an inventory of 949 assets along 23.99 km of arterial alignment in Osogbo and Ilorin. Pooled agreement looks usable: Cohen’s κ is 0.561, quadratically weighted κ is 0.841 and Krippendorff’s α is 0.842, with the teams within one grade on 98.0 percent. Disaggregated it does not. Agreement on covered drains falls to 0.277 against 0.682 for open lined channels, and cutting the statistic by city rather than asset type invites the wrong diagnosis entirely. The general result is arithmetic: a pooled statistic can conceal the subgroup in which an instrument has failed, and a pooled spatial test can too. We recommend that no condition dataset be published without a disaggregated agreement statistic, that surface-derived grades be used in bands rather than at a point, and that covered assets be coded as unassessed.},
      keywords = {drainage condition assessment, culvert inspection, inter-rater reliability, ordinal regression, urban flooding, asset management, nigeria},
      month = {July},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV3I1-1722674}
  }