PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MUNICIPALITIES WITH EMPHASIS ON PLANNING AND COST MODELS. SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS, VOLUME I, PROCEEDINGS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, JULY 13-17, 1987, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

This paper describes the pavement management system developed by the Working Group R1 "Pavement Management Systems" of the Dutch Study Centre for Road Construction for the maintenance planning in small municipalities. The members of the Working Group are from governmental as well as provincial and city roads departments, research institutes and private industry (contractors, consultants). The system is based on input coming from a road data inventory and a broad and/or detailed visual condition survey. Incorporated in the system are deterioration prediction models and maintenance strategy effect and cost models. Furthermore use is made of differentiated minimum acceptance levels in order to take into account the difference in importance of the road categories that can be discerned.