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Pavement design requires the specification of design criteria, the generation of feasible alternatives, the consideration of trade-offs, and the selection of the best overall choice. Pavement design alternatives typically present the engineer with unavoidable trade-offs between initial cost, maintenance cost, and design life. These trade-off decisions entail a great deal of complexity and controversy, making it difficult to select the alternative that might be the best. A rigorous decision-analytic method that can be used to compare alternatives, multiattribute utility analysis (MAUA), is described, and its advantages over two traditional approaches, life-cycle costing and weighting methods, are described. An example that illustrates a pavement design selection problem in which alternatives present the designer with trade-offs between initial cost, maintenance cost, construction flexibility, and pavement life is presented, thus demonstrating the applicability of the MAUA approach.

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p. 139-146

1994

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Alternatives analysis; Costs; Decision making; Life cycle costing; Maintenance management; Pavement design; Pavements; Service life; Systems of measurement; Utility theory; Weighting

Maintenance costs

Design; Economics; Finance; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways

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