Linking Pavement Design to Transportation Asset Management Through Pavement Management
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted a series of listening sessions and peer exchanges in 2018 and 2019 to document Stakeholder concerns with the FHWA's Pavement Design Policy (23 CFR, Part 626) and to solicit suggestions for updates. Stakeholders identified linking State pavement design policies to network-level Transportation Asset Management Plans (TAMPs) as a key challenge. Feedback loops between pavement design, pavement management, and transportation asset management (TAM) ensure that these units work toward the common goal of achieving long-lasting, safe, durable, and cost-effective pavements that are in line with the Department of Transportation's (DOT's) pavement performance measures.
Typically, there are few processes where information is passed directly between pavement design and asset management. However, pavement management has many connections with both pavement design and asset management. As a result, pavement management practices, policies, and systems play a major role in linking project level pavement design practices with network-level TAM efforts. State DOTs can establish effective linkages through organizational and procedural connections, coordinated policies, and regular communications between the staff and systems that manage these processes to support a continual improvement process.
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Transportation Asset Management
Pavement Management
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Linking Transportation Asset Management to Pavement Design
Linking Transportation Asset Management to Pavement Management
Linking Pavement Design to Pavement Management