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Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) currently preserves its statewide pavement network through the nine districts that spread around the state, with support from the central offices providing technical guidance and policy development that ensure consistency among the activities in the districts. With continuing efforts over the past decade, many key aspects of the state pavement management program, such as data collection and use, performance measures and forecasting, decision making and optimization, have achieved significant improvement. This paper presents Virginia’s statewide pavement management practices with the discussions being twofold: an overview of the ongoing development of web-based statewide pavement management system; and a general introduction of the statewide pavement management with focuses on: 1) pavement data collection and accompanying quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) process; 2) performance measures and targets; and 3) single- and multi-year decision making (e.g., decision matrix, decision tree, optimization, scenario analysis, forecasting and budgeting). By focusing more on a general overview rather than the technical details which have already been discussed on various occasions, this paper is intended to provide readers with some insight into the helpful tips and potential issues regarding management of pavement networks.

01147878

10-3571

English

18p

2010

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (5) ; References (26) ; Tables (1)

Data collection; Decentralization; Decision making; Forecasting; Optimization; Pavement management systems; Performance measurement

Virginia

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3571

TRIS, TRB

Jan 25 2010 11:49AM