PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR THE SWISS PRIMARY ROAD NETWORK

The management of the road network is becoming increasingly important in the current economic context. Each year, billions of Swiss francs are spent on preserving the huge capital of the national road network. In order to help the managers to make the decisions, which are adequate for the management of the maintenance of the road network under their charge, Pavement Maintenance Systems (PMS) are developed. Data processing tools for decision-making render it possible to plan maintenance measures optimally in so far as the models they incorporate, and in particular the pavement distress models (road behaviour modelisation) exist and are sufficiently reliable. In recent years, Switzerland has attempted to develop a significant data base for the principal road network. The development of PMS tools and pavement performance models is still at the exploratory stage. In this study, the authors have selected various types of performance models from recent European research (COST 324, PARIS project) that was undertaken on this topic. They have applied these models to distress data of the national primary road network in order to check the adequacy between the behaviour projected by these various models and the evolution of the network as it was observed. With data from the monitoring of the primary road network in the cantons of Fribourg, Neuchatel and Graubunden, the deficiencies of the models that were selected for this study have been determined. For the covering abstract see ITRD E108018.

• Corporate Authors:

  DUTCH-HUNGARIAN ORGANIZER AND CONSULTING LTD

  SZILAGYI U 3
  BUDAPEST,   Hungary  H-1081
• Authors:
  • DUMONT, A-G
  • TURTSCHY, J-C
• Conference:
  • FIRST EUROPEAN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CONFERENCE - PROCEEDINGS AND FINAL PROGRAM, BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
  • Location: Budapest , Hungary
  • Date: 2000-9-24 to 2000-9-27
• Publication Date: 2000-9

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maintenance; Networks; Pavement management systems; Performance; Roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Switzerland
• ITRD Terms: 5910: Durability; 3847: Maintenance; 3037: Pavement management system; 8110: Switzerland
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00808065
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 4 2001 12:00AM