01023799

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1940-03

http://scholar.google.com...Hill&publication_year=2005

Pavement warranty is an innovative contracting procedure increasingly adopted by highway agencies. Many states view implementing warranties as a way to protect their investment in pavement construction. The major benefit of pavement warranty is enhanced pavement performance. However, establishing warranty criteria and monitoring the performance of warranted pavement are two technical issues that must be resolved. This paper presents the discoveries of a research project supported by FHWA to investigate the effectiveness of using the pavement management system (PMS) to monitor the performance of pavement under warranty. It has been discovered that most states establish their warranty specifications on the basis of performance data from their PMS database by using statistical analyses, expert opinions, and adaptation of other states’ specifications. They also use the PMS data to monitor the performance of both warranty and nonwarranty pavements because the essential data, like ride, cracking, and rutting, are available in the database and are convenient for use. This paper also documents the unique features of the warranty specifications, including the warranty period, performance indicators, data collection methods, performance thresholds, remedial actions, and how the PMS database can be used to track the performance of pavements under warranty in five states: Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan. Some comparisons of the performances of the warranted pavements and those of nonwarranted pavements of similar conditions are also presented. The survey indicated that an integrated PMS that links the materials and traffic database would offer better efficiency to monitor and analyze the performance of both warranty and nonwarranty pavements.

01023790

English

pp 21-31

2005

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309094151

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Data collection; Databases; Monitoring; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Specifications; Warranty

Performance indicators

Florida; Indiana; Michigan; Ohio; Wisconsin

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

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

May 5 2006 9:08PM

• Accuracy of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Estimating Rigid and Flexible Pavement Layer Thicknesses
• Analysis of Long-Term Effectiveness of Thin Hot-Mix Asphaltic Concrete Overlay Treatments
• Assessment of Aging at FHWA’s Pavement Testing Facility
• Developing Roadway Standards for Ride Quality from the Customer’s Perspective
• Development of a Crack Type Index
• Evaluation of Top-Down Cracks in Asphalt Pavements by Using a Self-Calibrating Ultrasonic Technique
• Incorporating Variability into Pavement Performance, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, and Performance-Based Specification Pay Factors
• Pavement Management System Based on Financial Consequence
• Prediction of Pavement Crack Initiation from In-Service Pavements: A Duration Model Approach
• Quantification of Pavement Damage Caused by Dual and Wide-Base Tires
• Rut Initiation Mechanisms in Asphalt Mixtures as Generated Under Accelerated Pavement Testing
• Statistical Analysis of Automated Versus Manual Pavement Condition Surveys
• Superaccelerated Pavement Testing on Full-Scale Concrete Slabs
• Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Analysis of Pavement Profiles as a Diagnostic Tool
• Wavelet-Based Pavement Distress Classification