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Component

Implementation of a pavement management system requires data collection to estimate system needs, performance modeling to forecast time sensitive changes and decision making to allocate interventions. Many agencies have embarked in the implementation of a management system which eventually renders its fruits; however, implementation typically involves expensive equipment, years of data collection and hundreds of hours of workmanship. This all results in a barrier that impedes implementation at small municipalities and governments in developing countries. This paper reveals the secrets to develop and implement a low cost pavement management system in one year. First a pavement roughness indicator was estimated using mobile technology and android applications from vertical accelerations normalized by speed. Performance curves and treatment effectiveness were estimated to match locally observed data following previous research results. A case study of the town of Saint-Michelle in Quebec demonstrated the method. Investment scenarios showed that $254,418 dollars are required to sustain current levels of condition, which are poor. A budget of $350,000 dollars was needed to achieve increasing levels of service to reduce roughness to about 1.8 m/km after 18 years. Total annual funding dropped to about $150,000 dollars after 18 years of full budget investment, when the system allocates most of the budget in preventive maintenance, releasing funds for other government needs.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFD10 Pavement Management Systems. Alternate title: Low-Cost Method to Develop Initial Pavement Management System in One Year

01550057

15-0867

English

17p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Budgeting; Case studies; Cost effectiveness; Developing countries; Pavement management systems; Plan implementation; Roughness

Saint-Michel (Quebec)

Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0867

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 12:22PM