Pavement asset management

Comprehensive and practical, Pavement Asset Management provides an essential resource for educators, students and those in public agencies and consultancies who are directly responsible for managing road and airport pavements. The book is comprehensive in the integration of activities that go into having safe and cost-effective pavements using the best technologies and management processes available. This is accomplished in seven major parts, and 42 component chapters, ranging from the evolution of pavement management to date requirements to determining needs and priority programming of rehabilitation and maintenance, followed by structural design and economic analysis, implementation of pavement management systems, basic features of working systems and finally by a part on looking ahead.

Includes index.

The Evolution of Pavement Management. Introduction -- Birth and Teen Years of Pavement Management (1967-1987) -- Pavement Management Development from 2010 -- Setting the Stage -- Data Requirements. Overview of Pavement Management Data Needs -- Inventory Data Needs -- Characterizing Pavement Performance -- Evaluation of Pavement Structural Capacity -- Evaluation of Pavement Surface Distress Condition Surveys -- Evaluation of Pavement Safety -- Combined Measures of Pavement Quality -- Data Base Management -- Communicating the Present Status of Pavement Networks -- Determining Present and Future Needs and Priority Programing of Rehabilitation and Maintenance. Establishing Criteria -- Prediction Models for Pavement Deterioration -- Determining Needs -- Rehabilitation and Maintenance Alternatives -- Priority Programing of Rehabilitation and Maintenance -- Developing Combined Programs of Maintenance and Rehabilitation -- Structural Design and Economic Analysis: Project Level. A Framework for Pavement Design -- The MEPDG Process for Pavement Design -- The MEPDG for Design of New and Reconstructed Rigid Pavements -- Rehabilitation of Existing Pavements -- MEPDG in Practice -- Economic Eva…