MicroPAVER is a Pavement Management System developed by the US Army Corpsof Engineers through funding from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Federal Aviation Administration, and Federal Highway Administration. The Pavement Condition Index (PCI), part of MicroPAVER, has been adopted by NATO and as standard practice by ASTM (ASTM D5340 for airfields and D6433-03 for roads). The primary objective of this paper is to present the latest engineering technology in MicroPAVER for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) planning. Specifically, M&R budget scenario analysis and M&R project planning and formulation. The paper considers the following topics: the use of "family modeling" for prediction pavement condition; crediting increased pavement performance when including preventive M&R as part of work planning; performing budget scenario analysis for different management objectives such as reaching a stated condition or eliminating M&R backlog in a specified number of years; and use of the results of M&R budget optimization at the pavement section level as a guide to formulating projects that may consist of different work types and span multiple pavement sections. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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