Pavement Management Systems: Putting Data to Work

Pavement management systems are recognized as important tools to help transportation agencies optimize the use of available funding, better communicate funding needs, and more objectively manage their pavement network. This synthesis documents current pavement management practices in state and provincial transportation agencies. The report focuses on the use of pavement management analysis results for resource allocation, determining treatment cost-effectiveness, program development, and communication with stakeholders. Information used in this study was gathered through a literature review and a survey of state departments of transportation and Canadian provincial transportation agencies. Follow-up interviews with selected agencies provided additional information. According to the survey results, nearly all respondents have inventory and condition information for their high-volume highway networks. Fewer agencies have inventory and condition information for the lower-volume systems and there is a significant drop in the number of agencies that compile this information for frontage roads, shoulders, entrance and exit ramps, and high-occupancy lanes or bus lanes. Almost half of respondents are using customized proprietary pavement management software, and 16% are using software that was developed in house. Sixteen percent are using vendor-supplied software that has been modified in house. The results also indicated that 69% develop customized models developed specifically for their agency using agency data. Family models are used by 27 agencies (56%) and 23 agencies (48%) model performance indices rather than individual distresses. Only seven agencies (15%) are using probabilistic models. Ten percent report that their system does not predict pavement performance and 6% that they use default models. Of the 47 agencies responding to this question, 38% estimated that their pavement management recommendation and funded projects match at least 70% of the time. Additional findings as well as suggestions for further research are detailed in the report.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24682
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309389839
• Authors:
  • Zimmerman, Kathryn A
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 94p
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice
  • Issue Number: 501
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0547-5570

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Condition surveys; Data analysis; Data collection; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Resource allocation; Software
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01624875
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309389839
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project 20-05, Topic 47-08
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 2 2017 10:25AM