A Pavement Management System for County Roads in the State of Alabama

In recent years asset management has become important because the public wants to see the Federal, State, and Local governments run more like a private business. A pavement management system (PMS) is one aspect of asset management that deals entirely with roadways. A PMS is essentially a decision support tool that stores various types of information about roads and supports future forecasts of condition. This report covers a PMS that was designed for county roads in the state of Alabama. A PMS computer program was designed with county engineers in mind, for expedient management of their roads. To incorporate future forecasts of condition, road data were collected and analyzed with linear regression to build a pavement deterioration equation.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Wilson, Jeff
  • Anderson, Michael David
• Conference:
  • 10th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities
  • Location: Nashville Tennessee, United States
  • Date: 2006-9-13 to 2006-9-15
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: Tools of the Trade: 10th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; County roads; Decision support systems; Deterioration; Equations; Forecasting; Linear regression analysis; Pavement management systems
• Geographic Terms: Alabama
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01044638
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 23 2007 10:43AM