The development of pavement management technology has undergone considerable progress during the past decade. Techniques now exist for all components of the pavement management process, although they are still far from perfect. An important development in pavement management has been at the network level. However, this has been relatively recent in that pavement management started at the project level. As a consequence, most pavement management implementation and verification to date has been at the project level and has been fairly widely reported in the literature. In the late 1970's, however, the first successful cases of implementation and verification of network level pavement management began to appear. These have involved a comprehensive set of procedures and techniques that can be applied in a common framework and are applicable to a range of jurisdictions from small cities to large state or provincial highway departments. The foundation of pavement management is good data and its evaluation. In order to be used effectively, however, the data and evaluation should itself be "manageable". A means for achieving such manageability, not only in evaluation but also in using the information in pavement management, lies in automation. Savings in time and costs, through increased efficiency, can be realized. Such automation can range from the initial data acquisition, and its processing to the priority programming for networks through the actual design and economic calculations for individual projects to the use of computer graphics and tabulations for communicating the results. This paper describes a comprehensive set of pavement management procedures which have been developed and successfully applied to a variety of rural and urban networks. It outlines a general framework for these procedures, involving both the network and project levels of pavement management, and then provides examples of the implementation at both levels. These examples begin with the acquisition, analysis and presentation of inventory data. Use of the data in network level implementation is then described as well as the development of a priority program of work and the evaluation of alternative budget levels. Automation in data acquisition and processing, data analyses, priority analyses and optimization including the economic evaluation, and computer graphics presentation of results is illustrated in the examples. Brief examples of project level implementation are also provided. These similarly illustrate the use of automation from initial data acquisition to design analysis to final presentation of results.(a) for the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 815640.