00936199

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https://doi.org/10.3141/1816-03

http://scholar.google.com...edfi&publication_year=2002

The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) is responsible for maintaining a 16,000-lane-mi pavement network. To maintain this network Maryland SHA prepares a system preservation program annually that includes specific roadway locations to be improved. In recent years, the process to develop this program has improved considerably through the development of new pavement management tools. These tools have provided Maryland SHA the ability to evaluate multiple funding strategies to invest in the pavement network and the consequences, with regard to network health, for implementing the strategies. In addition, the development of new tools has provided a methodology to identify and select specific project locations for funding in an easier and more accurate manner. The implementation of two of these tools is discussed. These tools include an optimization process to create funding strategies and a computerized project selection tool to identify specific project locations. The approach to using each of these tools in Maryland is described. The report includes discussion on how investment strategies are developed and approved, how projects are selected to match the investment strategy, and how modifications are made to the plan throughout the year. Planned efforts to enhance the process in the future are discussed as well as conclusions on the implementation to date.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1816, Pavement Management, Monitoring, and Accelerated Testing 2002.

English

p. 16-25

2002

Transportation Research Record

0309077419

Figures (5) ; References (3) ; Tables (2)

Financing; Implementation; Investments; Methodology; Optimization; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Scheduling; Strategic planning

Maryland State Highway Administration

Computerized project selection

Design; Highways; Pavements; Research; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces

TRIS, TRB

Jan 28 2003 12:00AM

• ACCELERATED PAVEMENT TESTING OF DRAINED AND UNDRAINED PAVEMENTS UNDER WET BASE CONDITIONS
• CONDITION-BASED METHOD FOR PROGRAMMING ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE
• CUMULATIVE TRAFFIC PREDICTION METHOD FOR LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE MODELS
• DEVELOPMENT OF ROUGHNESS THRESHOLDS FOR PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE ACTION AIMED AT REDUCING DYNAMIC LOADS
• ENCAPSULANT MATERIAL EFFECTS ON RESPONSE OF FIBER-OPTIC TRAFFIC SENSORS
• ESTIMATING INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX FROM PAVEMENT DISTRESSES TO CALCULATE VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
• FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-BASED PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• IDENTIFICATION OF PAVEMENT FAILURE MECHANISMS AT FHWA ACCELERATED LOADING FACILITY ULTRATHIN WHITETOPPING PROJECT
• MEASUREMENT OF VERTICAL COMPRESSIVE STRESS PULSE IN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS: REPRESENTATION FOR DYNAMIC LOADING TESTS
• MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS METHOD FOR PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
• MULTIYEAR PAVEMENT REPAIR SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION BY PRECONSTRAINED GENETIC ALGORITHM
• RISK-BASED LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS FOR PROJECT-LEVEL PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
• TRUCKING TRENDS AND CHANGES THAT AFFECT PAVEMENTS
• USE OF DISTRESS AND RIDE QUALITY DATA TO DETERMINE ROUGHNESS THRESHOLDS FOR SMOOTHING PAVEMENTS AS A PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE ACTION
• WEIGH-IN-MOTION APPLICATIONS FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS--COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS: EVALUATION USING WESTA