Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management: Case Study of a Small Urban City

Cottrell, Wayne D.; Bryan, Stephen; Chilukuri, Bhargava Rama; Kalyani, Vikram; Stevanovic, Aleksandar; Wu, Junxia

doi:10.1061/(asce)1076-0342(2009)15:2(120)

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“…It is important to mention that this research applies the concept of pavement management of roads, highways and major roads. Nevertheless, few studies have applied pavement management activities on urban areas [16,17] and pavement sidewalks [18], proving its reliability in these areas.…”

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Sustainable Road Maintenance Planning in Developing Countries Based on Pavement Management Systems: Case Study in Baja California, México

2019

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The objective of this research is to develop a useful procedure that allows the collection, analysis, processing and updating of pavement conditions data, with the vision of generating inputs for the implementation of sustainable strategies for maintenance and rehabilitation of roads, based on pavement management systems. The relevance of this proposal lies in the fact that road management agencies in most of the developing countries have limited resources, staff and data to plan the interventions carried out on road networks. The proposed model comes from a work that has been done since 2014 to date, on the Centinela-La Rumorosa Highway, located in the state of Baja California, Mexico. Results integrate data gathered from analyzing the surface and structural conditions of its pavement and the study area, as well as the operating conditions of the road, including a georeferencing process in order to determine critical points in the network, and simulation to determine the effects of maintenance work carried out annually. It is concluded that the proposed planning model contributes to the improvement of highway performance, since it allows planning and administering the allocation of resources in making appropriate maintenance and rehabilitation decisions. Additionally, it allows to generate valuable inputs for pavement management systems implementation. The foregoing allows road management agencies in developing countries to provide a quality transportation system to their users.Sustainability 2020, 12, 36 2 of 14 models to local conditions. In developing countries, road management agencies have limited resources and staff, and for this reason, obtaining such inputs implies a greater effort and challenge. In that case, Mexican administrative agencies have not been able to adopt a pavement management approach. Therefore, road maintenance and rehabilitation works are carried out reactively, and not proactively, once surface and structural failures occur; in general terms, it becomes complex for one-way managers to define a preventive strategy.As a result of the foregoing, as of the year 2014, a project which seeks to improve planning and decision-making regarding the M&R of a road section began. This project locates in a mountain range of Baja California, Mexico. The objective of this research is to develop a useful procedure that allows the collection, analysis, processing and updating of pavement conditions data, with the vision of generating inputs for the implementation of sustainable strategies for M&R of roads, based on pavement management systems.

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Sustainable Road Maintenance Planning in Developing Countries Based on Pavement Management Systems: Case Study in Baja California, México

2019

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“…TIMMS (Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management System) including sidewalk pavement has been developed in order to minimize maintenance/serviceability and resident complaints of infrastructures in Utah, USA [2]. The city of Oakland, California, carries out sidewalk pavement management in consideration of ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), and the distress types have been largely classified into step, crack, uplift, and settlement to perform the survey of the pavement condition.…”

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Development of Sidewalk Block Pavement Condition Index (SBPCI) using Analytical Hierarchy Process

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This study aimed at developing SBPCI (Sidewalk Block Pavement Condition Index) with sidewalk pavement condition survey data of Seoul city in order to attain a quantitative evaluation method of sidewalk pavement condition. The distress patterns of sidewalk pavement were classified into four groups of Crack/Loss, Roughness, Aging, and Corner Break. AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) technique was employed on the basis of the raking process of 31 pavement managers in order to analyze the influence of the distress patterns on the sidewalk pavement condition. The AHP analysis result indicated the weight of pop out, roughness, surface abrasion, and corner break were 0.521, 0.244, 0.164, and 0.070, respectively, by distress type. A model equation was derived by using the sidewalk pavement condition data from 420 sections. The correlation analysis between the result of the model equation and distress type revealed that the correlation of corner break was low to be excluded from SBPCI model; while pop out, roughness, and surface abrasion were statistically significant to be used as three variables of the developed SBPCI model.

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“…However, the maintenance strategy adopted is rigid and limited since the system recommends specific treatments at a predetermined age such as applying a structural overlay at year 23. The Utah Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) center developed a pavement management system to support local agencies to manage their road networks [9]. The Utah LTAP helps Cities and Counties implement pavement management systems by providing GIS-based inventory, condition survey of the road network, and treatment costs [9].…”

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“…The Utah Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) center developed a pavement management system to support local agencies to manage their road networks [9]. The Utah LTAP helps Cities and Counties implement pavement management systems by providing GIS-based inventory, condition survey of the road network, and treatment costs [9]. The Utah LTAP also collects the severity and extent levels for potholes, utility cuts, rutting, transverse cracking, longitudinal cracking, block cracking, edge cracking and alligator cracking for asphalt pavements.…”

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Practical Approach for Pavement Treatment Decisions for Local Agencies

Abdelaty¹,

Jeong²,

Smadi³

2017

Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management

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Most local agencies such as counties and small cities continuously express difficulties in making technically and financially defensible decisions on their pavement infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation. Unlike pavement systems managed by state highway agencies, the total lane-miles of many local pavements are significantly short and they are managed by a limited number of staff who typically have multiple responsibilities. Most local agencies also do not have historical pavement performance data and the lack of a systematic decision making framework exacerbates the problem. A structured framework and an easily accessible decision support tool that reflects their local requirements, practices and operational conditions would greatly assist them in making consistent and defensible decisions. This study fills this gap by developing a systematic pavement treatment selection framework and a spreadsheet based tool for local agencies. It is expected that the proposed framework will significantly help local agencies to improve their pavement asset management practices at the project level.

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Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management: Case Study of a Small Urban City

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

Sustainable Road Maintenance Planning in Developing Countries Based on Pavement Management Systems: Case Study in Baja California, México

Sustainable Road Maintenance Planning in Developing Countries Based on Pavement Management Systems: Case Study in Baja California, México

Development of Sidewalk Block Pavement Condition Index (SBPCI) using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Practical Approach for Pavement Treatment Decisions for Local Agencies

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