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Title:

Evaluation of Maintenance Effectiveness for WSDOT Pavement Network
Cover of Evaluation of Maintenance Effectiveness for WSDOT Pavement Network

Accession Number:

01518133

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Any economical extension of pavement service life has a significant benefit for long-term life-cycle costs. Pavement maintenance activities can substantially extend the pavement service life or keep it from prematurely failing. The simple concept of higher costs due to deferred maintenance becomes more complicated when the objective is quantifying the cost tradeoffs, and selecting among maintenance alternatives. Current budget constraints in Washington State necessitate the development of new strategies with regard to pavement maintenance and preservation. Even if the optimum long-term rehabilitation plan for a particular section of roadway calls for a rehabilitation project, there often are no funds available to program the construction. This situation has resulted in the development of maintenance strategies for the purpose of delaying or avoiding pavement rehabilitation spending. These strategies include: (1) addressing early distress, (2) correcting short distressed sections, (3) maintaining and “holding” sections that are currently due for rehabilitation, and (4) integrating maintenance with rehabilitation strategies. The focus of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of different pavement maintenance strategies, and improve the procedures for analyzing maintenance tradeoffs. To illustrate the impacts of the maintenance strategy on a network level, three pavement preservation alternatives are compared, and associated costs are estimated for the Washington State pavement network.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD20 Pavement Maintenance.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-3468

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Li, Jianhua
Luhr, David R
Uhlmeyer, Jeffrey S
Mahoney, Joe

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Washington (State)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I60: Maintenance

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-3468

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:11PM