MICROCOMPUTER FLAGS ROADS THAT NEED REPAIR

Tampa, Florida, was a test site for the mainframe PAVER Pavement Management System in the early 1980's and has been using the system on a time-sharing basis ever since. Now, the city has converted to the PC-based Micro PAVER. The system provides a computerized inventory and status report of Tampa's street network which are used to allocate the $1.5 million annual asphalt maintenance budget. The system also provides life-cycle cost estimates to assist city officials in planning long-term maintenance. Micro PAVER is designed to run on an IBM or IBM-compatible equipment with a minimum of 640K RAM and a 20 megabyte hard disk. Further details of its use by Tampa are included in this article.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Cahners Publishing Company

  275 Washington Street
  Newton, MA  United States  02158-1630
• Authors:
  • Klemens, T L
• Publication Date: 1990-4

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 52-54
• Serial:
  • Highways and Heavy Construction
  • Volume: 133
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Cahners Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 0362-0506

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Inventory; Life cycle analysis; Life cycle costing; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Microcomputers; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Planning; Streets; Time duration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations; Long term; Pavement conditions
• Geographic Terms: Tampa (Florida)
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493652
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM