01089585

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https://doi.org/10.3141/2084-07

http://scholar.google.com...hang&publication_year=2008

A pavement management system should help a decision maker to select the best preservation program, decide which preservation treatment to use, and where and when to apply it to maximize the use of the available resources. One of the essential roles of pavement management is to provide a rational, cost-effective optimal funding planning and allocation strategy for highway agencies. Researchers have previously developed deterministic optimization methods for programming pavement maintenance and rehabilitation strategies. However, pavement infrastructure deterioration is a dynamic, complicated, and stochastic process affected by a variety of factors such as traffic loading, environmental conditions, and structural capacities, as well as certain unobserved factors. Ignoring these fundamental characteristics may limit the usefulness of an optimal solution. To take the uncertainties into consideration, some researchers have introduced stochastic programming techniques into pavement maintenance management. However, difficulties in characterizing the distribution of data and the substantial computational challenge have compromised the practical application of those techniques. A project-level robust optimization method for maintenance budget planning to overcome these difficulties is presented. The solutions from this proposed method are computationally tractable and not overly sensitive to any specific realization of the uncertainties. An application of this method is demonstrated by using long-term pavement performance data collected during the past 20 years, yielding promising preliminary results.

01120147

English

pp 55-61

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309125970

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Cost effectiveness; Optimization; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Programming (Planning); Rehabilitation; Resource allocation; Stochastic programming; Uncertainty

Pavement preservation

Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I60: Maintenance

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 29 2008 5:36PM

• Application of Rolling Dynamic Deflectometer to Forensic Studies and Pavement Rehabilitation Projects
• Bituminous Surface Treatment Protocol for the Washington State Department of Transportation
• Comparative Analysis of Long-Term Field Performance of Recycled Asphalt in California Environmental Zones
• Evaluation of Semiautomated and Automated Pavement Distress Collection for Network-Level Pavement Management
• Field and Laboratory Evaluation of a Reflective Crack Interlayer in New Jersey
• Hybrid Multiobjective Optimization Model for Regional Pavement-Preservation Resource Allocation
• In Situ Assessment of Interlayer Systems to Abate Reflective Cracking in Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlays
• Observations, Modeling, and Mitigation Related to Reflective Cracking on Composite Pavements in New York City
• Probabilistic Analysis of Pavement Distress Ratings with the Clusterwise Regression Method
• Rehabilitation Design of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement: Characterizing the Existing Portland Cement Concrete Elastic Modulus
• Review of Louisiana's Pavement Management System: Phase I
• Sensitivity of Design Parameters on Optimal Pavement Maintenance Decisions at the Project Level
• Statistical Modeling in Pavement Management: Do the Models Make Sense?
• Sustainable Pavements: Environmental, Economic, and Social Benefits of In Situ Pavement Recycling