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Primary Topic: Pavement System Preservation Description: Historically, many highway agency managers and administrators have tended to view their highway systems as simply a collection of projects. By viewing the network in this manner, there is a certain comfort derived from the ability to match pavement actions with their physical/functional needs. However, by only focusing on projects, opportunities for strategically managing entire road networks and asset needs are overlooked. Although the bottom up approach is analytically possible, managing networks this way can be a daunting prospect. Instead, road agency administrators have tackled the network problem from the top down by allocating budgets and resources based on historic estimates of need. Implicit in this approach is a belief that the allocated resources will be wisely used and will prove adequate to achieve desirable network service levels. FHWA Publication Number: FHWA-IF-07-006 Publication Year: 2007 Document Links: HTML PDF (file size: 2.1 mb) PDF files can be viewed with the Acrobat® Reader®
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