Project-level pavement management is responsible for continuous evaluation of pavement’s present serviceability, monitoring of the pavement loading rate, determination of the cause and rate of pavement deterioration, prediction of optimal time for intervention, and evaluation of the most economical rehabilitation strategy.
Pavement management can be applied at the project level or at the network level. Although both levels are very dependent upon one another, they are seldom applied for the same purpose. The network level applies to the whole system in a global sense. Network refers to systemwide averages and is used for system budgeting and performance modeling. This chapter addresses only the project-level aspects. Project-level pavement management is considered to be more complicated and more important than pavement design. Pavement management is applied throughout the life of a pavement, whereas pavement design is completed and forgotten once the pavement is initially in service.
