LOCAL AGENCY PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION GUIDE

This guide should serve as a tool to assist local agencies in utilizing a pavement management system (PMS) to its fullest extent. It focuses on how to maximize the benefits of a PMS once it has been implemented. The guide is organized into 8 chapters, followed by a glossary of terms, a bibliography of recommended additional sources of information, and appendices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of pavement management. Chapter 2 provides guidance on how to maintain a PMS once it has been implemented. Chapter 3 describes the different parameters that can be modified within a pavement management software program, such as repair alternatives, unit cost information, priority guidelines and performance prediction models. Chapter 4 describes the analysis of data using a PMS and how modifying the different parameters can alter the results. Chapter 5 discusses the use of preventive maintenance and its role in the pavement management process. Chapter 6 covers the different approaches an agency can use to effectively communicate with various users of pavement management information. Chapter 7 addresses some of the issues that may stall continuing pavement management efforts within an agency. Chapter 8 briefly reviews some new technologies which are beginning to impact the way agencies go about pavement management.

• Record URL:
  http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/BB2E9FD7-FEAF-4A90-BAF1-73091E71A42B/0/LAPavementManagersApp.PDF
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• Corporate Authors:

  Washington State Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building, 310 Maple Park Avenue SE, P.O. Box 47300
  Olympia, WA  United States  98504-7300
• Authors:
  • Broten, M
• Publication Date: 1997-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Costs; Data analysis; Evaluation; Forecasting; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Performance; Preventive maintenance; Repairing; Roughness; Skid resistance; Software; Strategic planning; Technological innovations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Pavement conditions; Performance prediction
• Old TRIS Terms: System maintenance
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00745254
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 6 1998 12:00AM