DESCRIPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PMS) DEVELOPED FOR THE STATE OF QATAR

A PMS was successfully implemented in the State of Qatar, providing the Roads Department with a powerful but easily manageable tool to assist in the analysis of existing road pavements, and in defining future maintenance and rehabilitation programs. The PMS has been implemented as a first entry-level system to be further developed and extended in the future. For this first phase of the PMS a network of around 350 km of roads has been evaluated: 160 km located in the Doha Industrial Area, suffering from very high volumes of heavy traffic, and 190 km of other main roads in Doha. The road network of Doha City subjected to this first phase of the PMS was split into homogeneous sections on the basis of the analysis of the results of the pavement evaluation phase. This was carried out using non-destructive high performance survey systems that had been procured as part of the project. Detailed results of analysis of the implementation of the PMS for the State of Qatar are presented and discussed. Surface and structural pavement parameters were evaluated from survey field data on more than 350 km of roads of Doha city, and homogeneous road sections were 20 21 identified to be analyzed by the PMS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Al Emadi, KMI
  • Battiato, G
• Conference:
  • The XXIInd PIARC World Road Congress
  • Location: Durban, South Africa
  • Date: 2003-10-19 to 2003-10-25
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Field tests; Homogeneity; Implementation; Network analysis (Planning); Nondestructive tests; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Performance evaluations; Road construction; Surveys; Traffic
• Geographic Terms: Qatar
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Research; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00986269
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 24 2005 12:00AM