Abstract
Urban roads constitute most of the existing roads and they are directly managed by small administrations. Normally, these small administrations do not have sufficient funds or sufficient qualified personnel to carry out this task. This paper deals with an easy-implementation Pavement Management System (PMS) to develop strategies to maintain, preserve and rehabilitate urban roads. The proposed method includes the creation of the road network inventory, the visual surveys of the pavement and the evaluation of its condition by the Pavement Condition Index (PCI). The method intends to give a valid tool to road managers to compare alternative maintenance strategies and perform the priority analysis on the network. With this aim, the procedure assesses the Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC) by a written regression between PCI and International Roughness Index (IRI). The proposed method has several advantages because it can be easily adapted to various situations and it does not require a large amount of time and money for its implementation.
Highlights
The maintenance management systems have been applied to roads since the 1970s and they generally are considered a good and useful aid for the road manager. These systems have been widely applied to the Pavement Management Systems and the acronym PMS became very popular in many countries in both America and Europe
This paper proposes the implementation of a PMS in small- and mid-sized municipalities as an analytical tool to help the pavement managers in the decision making process
Based on the results of this case study, it has been demonstrated that the proposed PMS establishes a new approach to the management of the urban network looking at the development of a rational and justified allocation of the resources with a reduced cost of implementation
Summary
The maintenance management systems have been applied to roads since the 1970s and they generally are considered a good and useful aid for the road manager. Since that time, these systems have been widely applied to the Pavement Management Systems and the acronym PMS became very popular in many countries in both America and Europe. A proper definition of PMS allows the reduction of overall road costs (construction and maintenance) as well as traffic disruptions. Most of the maintenance management systems were created to manage large networks and they refer to major road and airport infrastructures. Municipalities have to face the maintenance of a huge number of roads with
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