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Contained in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Transportation Legislation are three primary provisions that create a comprehensive, outcome-based program for pavements. The objective of this program is for States to invest resources in projects that will collectively make progress toward achievement of national goals. The principle provision – §150 National Goals and Performance Management Measures – requires that the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to develop performance measures and targets related to seven national goals, including maintaining the highway infrastructure assets in a state of good repair. The second provision – §119 National Highway Performance Program – requires the States to develop a risk-based asset management plan to improve or preserve the condition of assets through a program of projects that make progress toward achievement of the State targets for asset condition and performance of the system. The third provision – §135 Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Transportation planning – requires States to use a performance-based approach to transportation decision-making in their statewide transportation planning process to support the national goals. This paper shows how States can address these three provisions for pavements by using a concept called Remaining Service Life or RSL. RSL is a measurement of the time until the next rehabilitation of a pavement section. It is useful as a Performance Measure because it enhances pavement condition data by including pavement deterioration information. It is useful as part of an Asset Management Plan because it ensures investments are made to improve the life and usefulness of the highway system and it is useful as part of an Effective Planning Process because it gives agencies the long term information they need, with reasonable accuracy, to plan future maintenance and rehabilitation needs cost effectively.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABC30 Performance Measurement.

01503729

14-1709

English

16p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Highway maintenance; Infrastructure; Legislation; Pavement performance; Performance measurement; Service life

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act; U.S. Department of Transportation

United States

Highways; Pavements; Policy; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1709

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:37PM