The FHWA promotes the use of pavement management systems (PMS) by State and Local Highway Agencies. The PMS can do various pavement analyses to help these agencies preserve and improve their pavement networks.

These analyses included:

• Pavement performance analysis to analyze the current and predicted performance of specific pavement types,
• Investment analyses to estimate total cost for present and projected conditions across the network,
• Investment strategies to prioritize pavement maintenance and rehabilitation projects with recommended preservation treatments and strategies that span multi-year periods using their PMS, and
• Engineering analysis for appropriate network sections that could evaluate pavement design, construction, rehabilitation, materials, mix designs, and preventive maintenance as they relate to performance of pavements.

1. DP 108-A Pavement Management Analysis - Multi-year Prioritization

This activity consists of a series of PMS outreach sessions to provide one-on-one discussions and technical assistance to States that are developing the analyses required to do multi-year prioritization of pavement preservation projects.

The main topics to be demonstrated are:

• Pavement Performance Analysis
• Selection of Pavement Preservation Strategies and Treatments
• Prioritization Techniques
• Project Selection Process

The main topics to be demonstrated in the use of PMS performance data in engineering applications activity are:

• Historical Performance Data
• Evaluation of Pavement Design Procedure
• Pavement Preservation Strategies and Techniques
• Pavement Maintenance Performance Analysis

These two to three-day activities are providing technical assistance to highway engineers interested in developing or improving the analysis capabilities of their PMS.

DP 108-A sessions have been underway since the spring of 1997.

DP 108-B sessions are under development. Demonstration sessions are schedule to begin in winter 1998.

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