A methodological framework for modeling pavement maintenance costs for projects with performance-based contracts

OF THE DISSERTATION A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE COSTS FOR PROJECTS WITH PERFORMANCE-BASED CONTRACTS by Kamalesh Panthi Florida International University, 2009 Miami, Florida Professor Syed M. Ahmed, Major Professor Performance-based maintenance contracts differ significantly from material and method-based contracts that have been traditionally used to maintain roads. Road agencies around the world have moved towards a performance-based contract approach because it offers several advantages like cost saving, better budgeting certainty, better customer satisfaction with better road services and conditions. Payments for the maintenance of road are explicitly linked to the contractor successfully meeting certain clearly defined minimum performance indicators in these contracts. Quantitative evaluation of the cost of performance-based contracts has several difficulties due to the complexity of the pavement deterioration process. Based on a probabilistic analysis of failures of achieving multiple performance criteria over the length of the contract period, an effort has been made to develop a model that is capable of estimating the cost of these performance-based contracts. One of the essential functions of such model is to predict performance of the pavement as accurately as possible. Prediction of future degradation of pavement is done using Markov Chain Process, which requires estimating transition

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