Within the boundaries of Alberta's 17 cities, there is approximately 100 million square metres of paved road surface (equivalent to 13,500 kilometres of two lane road surface). In 1984, to assist with the management of this investment, Alberta Transportation and Utilities began working with the cities to develop a computerized pavement management system tailored to the needs of the urban centres. The primary objective driving the software development program was the integration of various elements of the existing pavement life forecasting technology with the known roadway structure, geometry, and construction cost information for the purpose of forecasting road maintenance and rehabilitation needs and budgets. and rehabilitation needs and budgets. The first prototype of the Alberta Municipal Pavement Management System (MPMS) was distributed in 1987 and six cities implemented the program. This paper reports on key maintenance and rehabilitation programming capabilities of the program, the establishment and function of a users group for sharing information and overseeing the software maintenance, the application of MPMS in selected cities and a comparison of the current status of arterial roadway conditions in all Alberta cities. (A)
Samenvatting