EAROMAR VERSION 2. FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT

Decisions among competing pavement investment and maintenance strategies must be based upon economic analyses considering both the costs and impacts of each strategy. Such analyses are sensitive to several local factors, including initial pavement design and construction, traffic loads, climate, maintenance and rehabilitation policy, maintenance technology, and unit costs. Of particular importance here are maintenance and rehabilitation actions, whose effects on pavement performance have not been studied extensively or quantified in the past. To enable highway administrators and engineers to account better for the interactions among the several factors above in influencing strategy selection, FHWA's EAROMAR system has been redesigned and recoded to produce a second version of this product. EAROMAR simulates freeway operational and structural performances to predict life-cycle roadway costs. These costs include highway agency expenditures for roadway reconstruction, rehabilitation and maintenance, and user costs of vehicle operation, travel time, (including congestion), and accidents. This report details the design concepts and technical relationships built into the modified EAROMAR system. Innovative features include prediction of maintenance and rehabilitation requirements based upon the damage occurring in the pavement, and detailed treatments of maintenance policy, maintenance technology, and traffic flow and congestion. (FHWA)

• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68516
• Corporate Authors:

  CMT Incorporated

  MIT Branch, P.O. Box 4
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Markow, M J
  • Brademeyer, B D
• Publication Date: 1984-4

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 393 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Highway planning; Life cycle analysis; Life cycle costing; Pavement design; Pavement maintenance; Pavement performance; Simulation; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic loads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway user costs
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385317
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-82-086 Final Rpt., FCP 35E1-022
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-9350
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM