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Reduced budgets and increased deterioration of roads in many of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries have led to increased demands for economic efficiency in the use of scarce public funds. The inability of current approaches to be able to allocate resources among all competing components of the road network in an optimal manner has led road agencies in the SADC region to consider a more comprehensive, systems approach to road management. Unfortunately, there is no common strategy for the development of such systems in the 10-country SADC grouping, which is important for a region wishing to harmonize its approaches to road management. Based on experiences gained from the development of a road management system (RMS) in Botswana, a strategy is formulated for the development of such a system for the SADC countries in a manner that is considered appropriate to the prevailing scarce financial and staff resources. The RMS framework is based on an integrated, modular approach in which a central or core database, containing common data elements, is linked to and interacts with a number of decision support subsystems such as pavement management, which can be operated to achieve various objectives. This approach allows application subsystems to be added separately and in a staged manner to suit the requirements and capabilities of the road agency. An implementation strategy is proposed to take account of various issues that are likely to affect the sustainability of the RMS. These issues include institutional, organizational, operational, staffing, and training, for which various recommendations are made.

The proceedings of the Third International Conference on Managing Pavements is published in three volumes. Volumes 1 and 2, published prior to the conference, include papers to be presented at the conference. Volume 3, published after the conference, contains additional papers presented at the plenary and workshop sessions.

English

p. 9-18

1994

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1

Third International Conference on Managing Pavements

0309055024

Figures (2) ; References (8) ; Tables (1)

Conferences; Decision support systems; Development; Implementation; Pavement management systems; Strategic planning; Subsystems

Southern Africa

Design; Highways; Pavements; Research; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces

TRIS, TRB

Jun 7 1994 12:00AM

• APPLICATION OF MARKOV PROCESS TO PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AT NETWORK LEVEL
• ARIZONA AIRPORT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• BURLINGTON ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
• CASE STUDY OF BENEFITS ACHIEVED FROM IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF PAVEMENT FACILITIES
• CONSIDERATIONS FOR DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING APPROPRIATE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR END USERS
• CONTRACT ROAD MAINTENANCE IN AUSTRALIA: A PILOT STUDY
• DESCRIPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RO.MA. FOR URBAN ROAD AND HIGHWAY NETWORK MAINTENANCE
• DESIGN OF PROJECT SELECTION PROCEDURE BASED ON EXPERT SYSTEMS AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
• DEVELOPING A CUSTOMIZED PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PORT ORANGE, FLORIDA
• DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR MUNICIPALITIES IN THAILAND
• DEVELOPMENT OF PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A ROAD NETWORK
• ENHANCEMENTS TO THE NETWORK OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM
• FLORIDA AIRPORT SYSTEM PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
• FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND NEED FOR INNOVATION IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
• HOW DECISION MAKERS AT VARIOUS LEVELS USE OUTPUT FROM THE DANISH PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BELMAN
• IMPLEMENTATION OF A CALIBRATION PROCEDURE FOR FALLING WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETERS
• IMPLEMENTATION OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TO OPTIMIZE WORK PROGRAMS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES IN AUSTRALIA
• INVESTIGATION INTO OBSERVATIONAL VARIATIONS IN PAVEMENT CONDITION SURVEY
• LONG-TERM COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
• MAKING OPTIMIZATION PRACTICAL IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: LESSONS FROM LEADING-EDGE PROJECTS
• NETWORK PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING: APPLICATION TO IOWA STATE INTERSTATE NETWORK
• NEW APPROACH TO DEFINING PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION STEPS
• NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE IN COMPARING MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC PAVEMENT CONDITION RATING SYSTEMS
• NORWEGIAN PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION: A COMPLETE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN OPERATION
• OVERVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION AND USE
• PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT AS PART OF STRATEGIC ROAD MANAGEMENT
• PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LEAD THE WAY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• QUALITY STANDARDS FOR RELIABLE PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS EVALUATION
• REPEATABILITY AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF MANUAL PAVEMENT DISTRESS SURVEY METHODS
• ROAD SURFACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• ROLE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION HISTORY DATA BASE WITHIN A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• ROLE OF MPOS IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
• ROLES FOR A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AGENCY IN COUNTERING LOCAL AGENCY INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS IN ADOPTION AND USE OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• USING INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN IMPLEMENTING PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS