01622441

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2639-14

Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation programming requires the consideration of conflicting objectives to optimize its life-cycle costs. While there are several approaches to solve multiobjective problems for pavement management systems, when user costs or environmental impacts are considered the optimal solutions are often impractical to be accepted by road agencies, given the dominating share of user costs in the total life-cycle costs. This paper presents a two-stage optimization methodology that considers maximization of pavement quality and minimization of agency costs as the objectives to be optimized at the pavement section level, while at the network level, the objectives are to minimize agency and user costs. The main goal of this approach is to provide decision makers with a range of optimal solutions from which a practically implementable one could be selected by the agency. A sensitivity analysis and some trade-off graphics illustrate the importance in balancing all the objectives to obtain reasonable solutions for highway agencies. Multiobjective optimization problems at both levels are solved using genetic algorithms. The results of a case study indicate the applicability of the methodology.

01632579

17-00942

English

pp 110–118

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441636

Digital/other

Figures (3) ; References (26) ; Tables (8)

Case studies; Genetic algorithms; Life cycle costing; Optimization; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Programming (Planning); Rehabilitation

Cost minimization; Multiobjective optimization; Quality maximization

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:14AM

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