Using Pavement Automated Monitoring System in Prioritization of Maintenance Decisions

Saad Issa Sarsam, Abbas M. Burhan, Ibrahim Abed Mohammed

Abstract


The road transportation system greatly affects the development of economy and social activities for the country. However, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation may be extremely costly and require a lot of funds and resources. Therefore, it is essential to spend these funds in an optimal way. In recent years, the major challenge that have faced most of highway management agencies in Iraq is how to preserve the road network at an acceptable level of serviceability because of the limitations in the allocated budget for pavement maintenance works, the external interferences in the process of decision making, and absence of the effective decision making tools. Maintenance and rehabilitation of highway networks have become a central issue in most of highway agencies due to scare funding coupled with rapid increase in the total length of network. The research presents developing a mathematical model using a prioritization technique to prioritize the pavement maintenance works. The developed model, which is named RMPI (Road Maintenance Priority Index), aims to help the decision makers in making effective decisions for the selection of roads that should be maintained firstly according to the allocated budget.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijce.v1i1.17

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