Why pavement management?
Pavement management saves paving and maintenance costs, protects the value of this expensive asset and is environmentally friendly when it is fully implemented minimizing the number of times a pavement requires reconstruction. Pavement management has been a recognized dicipline in the engineering and public works communities since the United States Corps of Engineers began the study of managing airfield pavement in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Pavement management is a subset of infrastructure management and as our paved assets age it becomes increasingly important. The United States Government ties much if not all of their funding for roadways and runways (individual State Departments of Transportation and Airports) to the recipient’s use of a pavement management system. The Federal Government does this to maximize the longevity of the paved asset they are assisting in paying for. Almost all local cities, counties, townships, and state and regional governments utilitze pavement ma
