DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM LEVEL PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TEXAS. INTERIM REPORT

A Pavement Management System (PMS) methodology is described herein which may assist the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation (SDHPT) in effectively allocating pavement budgets. The framework and essential characteristics of an ideal PMS and subsystems are reviewed, and the stochastic decision process to be applied in Texas is discussed. The material reported herein primarily documents efforts made to develop the program level PMS using a method that will lead to a more realistic and efficient way of making decisions concerning pavement rehabilitation at the program level. The methodology presented is based on the Markovian decision process which has been applied in Arizona, and involves a set of performance variables, such as roughness, cracking, and rutting. The development and practical application of this stochastic decision process using a policy-iteration algorithm is discussed, together with the results obtained.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research, 3208 Red River Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78705

  Texas State Department of Highways & Public Transp

  P.O. Box 5051
  Austin, TX  United States  78763

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Lee, H
  • Hudson, W R
• Publication Date: 1984-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 128 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Decision making; Driver rehabilitation; Markov processes; Pavement cracking; Pavement management systems; Roughness; Ruts (Pavements); State highway departments; Stochastic processes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations; Rehabilitation; Rut
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457796
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: Research Rpt 307-3
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 31 1986 12:00AM