The New Generation Pavement Management System for Major Roads in England

The paper describes the new generation pavement management system for the National Roads of England. This system has been implemented in phases, and is being further extended, by the Highways Agency, an executive arm of Government. The network of roads managed by the Highways Agency comprises approximately 20,000 carriageway km and approximately 44,000 lane km. It comprises only 4% of the total network of England (in carriageway length terms) but carries 25% of the total traffic. For these highly trafficked roads, it is important to minimize closure of lanes on each road, including those closures solely for the purpose of collection of condition data. This, together with various changes in management roles and in technology, determined that it was timely to implement a new computerized system to assist in the management of the pavement asset. The paper gives a summary of the imperatives for change, the volumes of data involved and the benefits anticipated. At the core of the new system is a relational database that is powerful enough to accommodate data on the inventory and condition of all assets, using a common network referencing system. The first applications working on this data are concerned with the presentation to all users of data in a convenient format, including map backgrounds, the preparation and allocation of budgets and the determination of priorities for investment in major pavement maintenance. The costs and programme for development of the system are given in the paper, together with an outline of plans for future enhancements and extensions.

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  University of Washington, Seattle

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• Authors:
  • Hawker, Les
  • Hattrell, Dave
• Conference:
  • Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements
  • Location: Seattle Washington, United States
  • Date: 2001-8-11 to 2001-8-14
• Publication Date: 2001-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements, August 11-14, 2001, Seattle, Washington. Conference Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Budgeting; Control systems; Data collection; Lane closure; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Relational databases; Traffic; Traffic lanes
• Identifier Terms: Highways Agency (United Kingdom)
• Geographic Terms: England
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01037896
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0971174016
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 2006 9:11AM