Airpave Management - An Innovative Integrated Pavement Management System for Airport Pavements

This paper presents the windows based Pavement Management System for airport pavements, AIRPAVE MANAGEMENT, developed in close cooperation between Copenhagen Airport and RAMBOLL. The overall objective of AIRPAVE MANAGEMENT is twofold; to provide an archive system, enabling the airport authority to handle and keep an easy track of all activity concerned with the maintenance of the pavements and to use all information on hand in the prediction of the timing and type of any future maintenance needs. The archive system ensures that all relevant information regarding the pavements is stored in the same database. In this way the user has an easy access to the historical development/information of the pavements. The most important feature of the system is the more complex approach of describing the condition, which is separated into three condition indices; a structural index, a functional index and an index describing the condition of the wearing course. This approach is deemed necessary for the achievement of a more precise prediction of the type of future interventions. The type of maintenance applied by the system will depend on which of the three condition indices reaches the user defined minimum service level of each particular homogeneous pavement section. To get an even better estimate of the actual condition and future development of the pavements the system makes use not only of visual inspections but also of results from a range of objective measurements. The innovative approach of this pavement management system ensures a better estimate of future maintenance and rehabilitation needs on a project level, which is of major importance to any airport authority, enabling them to optimize budget allocations and avoid wasteful planning. Integrated into the Pavement Management System (PMS) program is a Geographical Information System (GIS) which enables a powerful presentation of the many and complex results of the system. Further the GIS is the tool where the archive part of the PMS program, the Management Information System (MIS), is best viewed as it shows the position and result of any of the information collected. The paper will in closing as a case story present the successful implementation of AIRPAVE MANAGEMENT in Copenhagen Airport, one of the major airports in Europe.

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  University of Washington, Seattle

  Engineering Professional Programs, 10303 Meridian Avenue North #301
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• Authors:
  • Hede, Jens C H
  • Andersen, Jorgen
• 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; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements, August 11-14, 2001, Seattle, Washington. Conference Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Budgeting; Data banks; Databases; Geographic information systems; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Rehabilitation
• Identifier Terms: Copenhagen Airport
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airpave management
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01037820
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0971174016
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 2006 9:11AM