The article discusses the issue of managing roads with concrete surfaces. Modern methods of surface features identification applied on the exploited motorway section of a length of 100 km (in conversion to rows of concrete slabs it gives around 600 km) are presented. The general principles of the rigid surface management system are described below in order to enable a comprehensive analysis of the obtained data in terms of the possibility of developing concrete slabs degradation models that form the basis for long-term planning of maintenance works.