Asset Management

Pavement Management Practices in State Highway Agencies: Newington, Connecticut Peer Exchange Results

January 2011

Office of Asset Management
Federal Highway Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20590

FHWA-HIF-11-036

Table of Contents

• Foreward
• Notices
• Technical Report Documentation Page
• SI Metric Conversion Factors Table
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Use of Pavement Management Data to Support Decision Making
• Chapter 3 Using Pavement Management for Short and Long Term Planning
• Chapter 4 Establishing Links with Pavement Preservation and Maintenance Operations
• Chapter 5 Developing Performance Models and Performance Measures using Pavement Condition Information
• Chapter 6 The Economics of Pavement Management: Cost Effectiveness and Cost Savings
• Chapter 7 Technical Issues Related to Comparison of Performance Measures
• Chapter 8 Summary
• Appendix A Background Summaries of Participating State Highway Agencies

List of Tables

• Table 1-1. Participants in the North Atlantic Peer Exchange Meeting
• Table 2-1. Summary of Practices in participating state highway agencies

Notice

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Technical Report Documentation Page

Form DOT F 1700.7 (8-72) Reproduction of completed page authorized.

SI* Modern Metric Conversion Factors

Foreword

The Federal Highway Administration Office of Asset Management has performed a series of Pavement Management Peer Exchange Workshops. The purpose of these workshops is to provide participating state agencies a forum to discuss issues of mutual interest in the field of pavement management and promote information exchange between participating agencies.

This document reports on the discussions held at the fifth such Peer Exchange held on September 8-9, 2010 in Newington, Connecticut. The peer exchange had representatives from the following agencies:

• Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT)
• Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT)
• Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)
• New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT)
• New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)
• Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT)
• Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans)
• FHWA Division and Resources Center Staff
• FHWA Office of Asset Management

The report presents a summary of the states' practices in each of the following topics:

• Using pavement management data to support decision making
• Using pavement management data for short-and long-term planning
• Establishing links with pavement preservation and maintenance and operations
• Developing performance models and performance measures using pavement condition information
• Economics of pavement management - cost effectiveness and cost savings
• Technical issues related to comparison of performance measures