Use of Pavement Management System Data to Enhance Pavement Performance Specifications in Canada

Most agency materials and construction specifications for pavement rehabilitation and construction activities provide little or no linkage between quality assurance methods and the in-service performance of the treatment. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), Canada, is developing and implementing performance specifications to bridge this gap. MTO defines performance specifications as specifications that describe how the finished product should perform over time. This paper describes how MTO used historical pavement management system data to assess performance sensitivity and to create historical performance distributions and how the agency used these distributions to set acceptance criteria, including payment adjustment for performance.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2573-08
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Smith, James Dale
  • Lee, Stephen
  • Kazmierowski, Thomas J
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 60–68
• Monograph Title: Construction
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2573
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Pavements; Paving; Performance based specifications
• Identifier Terms: Ontario Ministry of Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Acceptance criteria; Pay adjustments
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01592575
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309441377
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-4816
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 2 2016 5:12PM