Due to the importance of the transportation network asthe backbone of the modern city, there is a great need for a systematic and continuous pavement monitoring and maintenance mechanism. However, the attempts of implementing such a mechanism isfaced by three types of challenges: (1) financial challenge: the limitations in the allocated budget for pavement maintenance works; (2) socio-political challenge: the external interferences in the process of decision-making and prioritization; and (3) technical challenge: the absence of the effective decision-making tools.

This paperaims to deal with these challenges by developing a computerized Pavement Management Database (PMD) as a decision aid tool.The PMD can be used by the transportation engineers in managing the existing road pavements, and helps the decision-makers make effective decisions to select the roads with high maintenance priority based on calculating a composite Priority Index (PI). The PI is composed from several indicators such as pavement conditions, average daily traffic, functional classification of road, importance of road to community, citizens complains, etc. Finally, the PMD has high potential, if adapted by transportation agencies and municipalities, to more efficient maintenance budget allocation and less external interferences in the process of decision-making.

Conference Title

The Second International Conference on Civil Engineering

Conference Country

Palestine

Conference Date

Nov. 25, 2019 - Nov. 26, 2019

Conference Sponsor

Engineers Association-Jerusalem Ceneter