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Pavement Management
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What is inside this section: Pavement Management

“Pavement management” refers to a systematic process of maintaining, upgrading and operating a network of pavements and involves three major components: the pavement life cycle, the costs associated with this life cycle and pavement management systems.

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Pavement Evaluation

Pavement performance is a function of its relative ability to serve traffic over a period of time (Highway Research Board, 1962). Originally, a pavement’s relative ability to serve traffic was determined quite subjectively by visual inspection and experience.

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Petroleum Distilllation

When we think of energy use in our roadways, we tend to think about burning gasoline in our cars. With growing concerns about environmental health as well as rising fuel prices, automobile manufacturers are looking at ways to make driving more energy efficient.  But what about the energy it takes to build the road itself? … Read more »