THE STATUS OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

In the last decade state highway agencies have been faced with a number of problems in assessing the needs of their highways (reductions in real maintenance budgets, increases in costs of surfacing materials, ageing of state roads requiring more frequent maintenance, more stringent Federal standards for subsidies, need to predict the effect on road conditions of reduced expenditure). To cope with these problems systematic procedures for evaluating alternative pavement maintenance policies and procedures are necessary and these procedures are generally termed pavement management systems (PMS). The paper reviews several definitions for PMS and the components necessary to operate a system. In summary PMS may be defined as an integrated set of procedures that would effectively address all of the pavement maintenance activities of a road agency including collection and storage of information, assessment of conditions, allocation of funds, and selection of optimal maintenance actions within budgetary and policy constraints. The benefits of PMS are listed as the selection of cost effective alternatives, consistency in decision making based on objective and uniform data, maximising level of performance for fixed budgets, the ability to compare a large number of alternative treatments using computer aided prediction models, the ability to know the 'health' of the system and to compare the trends in condition with time, and a documented defence for decisions regarding what to do, when, and where. The number of the covering record for the workshop is IRRD no 284059. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Pavement Management Systems Workshop, Albury, New South Wales, 19-22 August 1985.
• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Finn, F N
  • Golabi, K
• Conference:
  • Australian Road Research Board Conference Proc
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 329-81

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Cost effectiveness; Data collection; Decision making; Finance; Financing; Mathematical models; Pavement management systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8525: Conference; 8614: Database; 2248: Decision process; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 3847: Maintenance; 6473: Mathematical model; 2955: Pavement; 143: Planning; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00465087
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86910-236-2
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 1988 12:00AM