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Analysis of cost effective pavement treatment and budget optimization for arterial roads in the city of Chattanooga
- Source :
- Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering. 12:291-299
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Many transportation agencies lack sufficient funds to maintain and repair roads, which results into increased pavement maintenance cost. Pavement Management System (PMS) has demonstrated to be an essential tool for proper management of infrastructure and proper utilization of available funds. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga utilized Micropaver software as PMS tool to conduct a pavement management analysis of principal arterials in the City of Chattanooga. The study used the City of Chattanooga pavement database to create the current and future pavement conditions. Maintenance and repair (M&R) planning analysis was also performed in order to determine the most cost-effective treatment and suggest the optimum utilization of funds for the city. An analysis of five budget scenarios was conducted for a five-year plan using the critical pavement condition index (PCI) method (ASTM D6433). Results show that the backlog elimination budget would be the best scenario because it increases the pavement condition and eliminates the backlog of major maintenance and repairs over the five-year period. The unlimited budget seems though ideal, it does not improve pavement condition. Maintaining current condition and limited budget scenarios would increase both the backlog and the total cost of maintenance and repairs over the analysis period.
- Subjects :
- 050210 logistics & transportation
Engineering
business.industry
Total cost
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
Pavement management
Pavement maintenance
02 engineering and technology
Pavement Condition Index
Transport engineering
Budget optimization
021105 building & construction
0502 economics and business
Architecture
business
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20952449 and 20952430
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b8d0fc1b9c55af48c3d07a1624c3b3f2