Abstract

Pavement markings are essential elements of transportation infrastructure with critical impacts on safety and mobility. They provide road users with the necessary information to adjust driving behavior or make calculated decisions about commuting. The visibility of pavement markings for drivers can be the boundary between a safe trip and a disastrous accident. Consequently, transportation agencies at the local or national levels allocate sizeable budgets to upkeep the pavement markings under their jurisdiction. Infrastructure asset management systems (IAMS) are often biased toward high-capital-cost assets such as pavements and bridges, not providing structured asset management (AM) plans for low-cost assets such as pavement markings. However, recent advances in transportation asset management (TAM) have promoted an integrated approach involving the pavement marking management system (PMMS). A PMMS brings all data items and processes under a comprehensive AM plan and enables managing pavement markings more efficiently. Pavement marking operations depend on location, conditions, and AM policies, highly diversifying the pavement marking management practices among agencies and making it difficult to create a holistic image of the system. Most of the available resources for pavement marking management focus on practices instead of strategies. Therefore, there is a lack of comprehensive guidelines and model frameworks for developing PMMS. This study utilizes the existing body of knowledge to build a guideline for developing and implementing PMMS. First, by adapting the core AM concepts to pavement marking management, a model framework for PMMS is created, and the building blocks and elements of the framework are introduced. Then, the caveats and practical points in PMMS implementation are discussed based on the US transportation agencies’ experiences and the relevant literature. This guideline is aspired to facilitate PMMS development for the agencies and pave the way for future pavement marking management tools and databases.

Highlights

  • This paper aims to identify the core concepts and practices of asset management (AM) that are instrumental to the management of pavement markings and provide guidelines for the development of pavement marking management system (PMMS)

  • This study identified asset management (AM) practices that best serve the purpose of pavement marking management and described a model framework for the pavement marking management system (PMMS)

  • The paper discussed the critical moves and steps in developing and implementing PMMS based on the existing literature and the previous applications

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Summary

A Theoretical Model Framework

Transportation Agencies. Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in and Neal Hawkins 3 Center for Transportation Research and Education, Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, IA 50010, USA Center for Transportation Research and Education, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental

Introduction
Fundamentals and Core Concepts
Identifying Principal Performance Measures
Objective
Performance Targets
Planning and Scheduling Pavement Marking Operations
Developing Consistent Processes for Acquisition of Goods and Services
Section 3.4.
Developing Consistent Procedures for Material Selection and Application
Establishing Inspection Guidelines
Developing a Comprehensive Data Management Platform
PMMS Database and Data Integration
Location Referencing
Pavement Marking Service Life Prediction
Developing IT Tools to Facilitate Different PMMS Activities
Integrating PMMS Database with Other AM Systems
Summary of Results
Findings
Conclusions
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