Management Systems
How agencies use pavement management systems to track condition across a network and choose the work, both for the network as a whole and for individual projects.
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Pavement Management Systems
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) defines pavement management as “…the effective and efficient directing of the various activities involved in providing and sustaining pavements in a condition…
Network Level Approach to Pavement Management
The network-level approach is characterized by top-down logic, system optimization, aggregate data, large data and resource requirements, and sophisticated models. Its chief advantages are that it can:
Project Level Approach to Pavement Management
The project-level approach to pavement management uses a bottom-up methodology to combine methods, procedures, data, software, policies and decisions to produce network solutions.