PMS Implementation: Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Pavement management has emerged throughout the 1980s as an accepted tool to assist engineers in planning their pavement rehabilitation needs. Boosted by the support of the Federal Government...
Application of Leading Edge PMS Techniques in India
In India there is a pressing need for an efficient system to plan highway rehabilitation and maintenance. A two year project has started in March 1993 to develop a Pavement Management...
Canadian Pavement Management Systems
A large portion of the investment in Canada's road system is in pavement structures. In the 1960's a coordinated national effort toward protecting the investment, through good pavement...
Compare: Hampton Roads Congestion Management Program
COMPARE is an acronym given to a traffic congestion management program that has been formulated through the cooperative efforts of all the major Cities and Transportation Agencies in the...
Trip Rates Adjustments for Impact Assessment and Congestion Management
Evidence that all urban trips are not equal and that trip rates need to be adjusted to reflect the differential contribution of trips to traffic loads and congestion is presented. Adjustments...
Field Testing of Advanced Maintenance Data Acquisition Technologies in Three State DOTs
Field testing and evaluation of advanced data acquisition technology in Maryland, Connecticut and Arizona showed the potential for state highway agencies to improve existing procedures...
BMS Modelling of Bridge Stock Performance
A computer-based Bridge Management System, BMS, was designed in Finland by the Finnish National Road Administration (FinnRA) to assist in high level bridge policy, long-term planning and...
Level of Service in Bridge Management Systems
The Federal Highway Administration's Sufficiency Rating is not adequate for evaluating bridges. It ignores fundamental bridge characteristics and is far too subjective. The Level of Service...
Congestion Pricing with Tolls and Subsidies
Though economists have promoted congestion pricing for many years it has, in general, met with public opposition. It is usually argued that congestion pricing is unfair, discriminatory,...
Congestion Management: Right Price
Congested city centers have become a nightmare of traffic planners. They propose a variety of measures to overcome the problem: more funds to road construction, tighter parking controls,...
Bridge Management System Implemented in Thailand
The latest ten years' economic growth in Thailand and the associated increase in roadway and railway traffic has exposed the existing bridge structures as bottlenecks of these transportation...
New Road Safety Initiatives in New Zealand
A considerable number of initiatives have been taken in New Zealand recently to keep pressure on the downward trend in road crashes and casualties. These have included government legislation...
Road Safety Audit: Prevention is Better Than Cure
Over the past two decades, the emphasis in road safety engineering has been on crash reduction through the development of remedial measures at high frequency sites. Road and traffic authorities...
Development and Application of a GIS-Based FTIMS
This paper presents the development of a GIS-based freeway traffic information management system (FTIMS) for the Sun Yat-Sen National Freeway of Taiwan. A two-stage analytical hierarchy...
Using a Geographical Information System to Facilitate Implementation of a Pavement Management System
One of the challenges facing local government is the management of its infrastructure. An important part of this process is the development of a pavement management systems to protect...
A GIS-Based Rail Infrastructure Management System
Computer-based models and analytical techniques are powerful components of infrastructure management systems. However, the availability of data sets significantly affects the usefulness...
Innovative Contracting Practices in Developing an Advanced Freeway Management System
Throughout the nation, many public agencies have determined to incorporate time saving and cost effective project innovations while maintaining and upgrading project quality. One possible...
Programme Management in Highway Region
In the beginning of the 1990's FinnRA suggested decreasing resources for the Lapland highway district whereas the district felt that such a policy would have very harmful long term effects....
Coordination of ISTEA?1991 Management Systems
Following the successful development and implementation of pavement management concepts, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) contains the provision that...
Controlling Corrosion in Bridge Structures
The overall objectives of the Structures Research Area of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) were to provide methods to protect chloride-contaminated concrete components against...
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