Integrating Pavement Preservation into a Web-based Chuning Highway Pavement Management System

This paper presents the Chuning Expressway Pavement Management System (Chuning PMS), a web-based PMS integrating the pavement life cycle activities (e.g. design, construction, condition survey, maintenance, etc.) that support pavement preservation strategy and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA). The integration allows the users to track the long-term pavement treatment performance and provide the results to the decision support system. In addition, the web-enabled system provides a common platform for different parties (e.g. pavement engineer, manager, condition evaluation contractor, maintenance contractor, etc.) to share the pavement inventory and efficiently participate in the decision making process. Opened to traffic in 2006, Chuning Expressway is an 84.5-km 4-lane strategic highway connecting the Anhui province and the Nanjing economic region in Jiangsu province in China. The expressway is a typical Private Public Partnership (PPP) project, owned and managed by a private company for 30 years before being transferred to the public. With investment return incentives, the company has supported the development of a PMS to integrate pavement life cycle activities, track pavement treatment methods and corresponding expenditures, perform treatment benefit- cost analysis, and identify the optimal pavement preservation for the system. The system now maintains design documents (plan and profile drawing, pavement structure design, typical section, etc.), pavement survey data (IRI, Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD), and surface distress data), and detailed truck traffic data (e.g. number of axles and vehicle loads) for establishing a long-term pavement performance forecasting model. With the incorporation of web technology, the Chuning PMS enables engineers to perform a data driven pavement preservation decision-making process by accessing and integrating various data on a common location reference, and allows roadway maintenance to be performed promptly. This paper presents the benefits of developing such a web-based PMS and with a recommendation for future research.

• Record URL:
  https://www.pavementpreservation.org/icpp/paper/43_2010.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Foundation for Pavement Preservation

  2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
  Washington, DC  United States  20036-3309
• Authors:
  • Tsai, Yichang (James)
  • Wu, Yiching
  • Guo, Dajin
• Conference:
  • First International Conference on Pavement Preservation
  • Location: Newport Beach CA, United States
  • Date: 2010-4-13 to 2010-4-15
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 133-148
• Monograph Title: Compendium of Papers from the First International Conference on Pavement Preservation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Condition surveys; Decision support systems; Falling weight deflectometers; Life cycle costing; Pavement management systems; Preservation; Service life; Surface treating; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement preservation
• Geographic Terms: Jiangsu Sheng (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01158710
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 11 2010 12:05PM