Pavement asset management / Ralph Haas and W. Ronald Hudson with Lynne Cowe Falls.

Includes index.

The Evolution of Pavement Management. Introduction -- Birth and Teen Years of Pavement Management (1967-1987) -- Pavement Management Development from 2010 -- Setting the Stage -- Data Requirements. Overview of Pavement Management Data Needs -- Inventory Data Needs -- Characterizing Pavement Performance -- Evaluation of Pavement Structural Capacity -- Evaluation of Pavement Surface Distress Condition Surveys -- Evaluation of Pavement Safety -- Combined Measures of Pavement Quality -- Data Base Management -- Communicating the Present Status of Pavement Networks -- Determining Present and Future Needs and Priority Programing of Rehabilitation and Maintenance. Establishing Criteria -- Prediction Models for Pavement Deterioration -- Determining Needs -- Rehabilitation and Maintenance Alternatives -- Priority Programing of Rehabilitation and Maintenance -- Developing Combined Programs of Maintenance and Rehabilitation -- Structural Design and Economic Analysis: Project Level. A Framework for Pavement Design -- The MEPDG Process for Pavement Design -- The MEPDG for Design of New and Reconstructed Rigid Pavements -- Rehabilitation of Existing Pavements -- MEPDG in Practice -- Economic Evaluation of Alternative Pavement Design Strategies and Selection of an Optimal Strategy -- Implementation of Pavement Management Systems. Steps and Key Components of Implementation -- Role of Construction -- Role of Maintenance -- Research Management -- Examples of Working Systems. Basic Features of Working Systems -- Network Level Examples of Pavement Management -- Project Level Examples of PMS Software -- HDM-4 the Upgraded World Bank Model -- City and County Pavement Management Systems -- Airport Pavement Management -- Looking Ahead. Analyzing Special Problems -- Applications of Expert Systems Technology -- New and Emerging Technologies -- Institutional Issues and Barriers Related to Pavement Management Implementation -- Cost and Benefits of Pavement Management -- Future Direction and Need for Innovation in Pavement Management -- Developments in Asset Management.

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