Benefits of Preventive Maintenance for Pavements

Status: Active
Project Start Date: 06/29/2021

Summary:

While proactive preventive maintenance for bituminous and concrete pavements is intuitively known to be more cost-effective than a worst-first maintenance approach, limited research has quantified its actual economic benefits. This project analyzed historical road condition data to quantify the effectiveness of preventive maintenance and provide evidence to support future decisions about maintenance strategies and budget allocations. Results indicate that comprehensive implementation on bituminous pavements could generate $2.4 billion to $2.5 billion in present value cost savings over 20 years and $20 million to $68 million in present value cost savings over 20 years for concrete pavements.

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Related Materials:

New Project: Benefits of Preventative Concrete Pavement Maintenance (Blog Post)

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Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator: Basak Aldemir Bektas
Co-Principal Investigator: Fatih Bektas
Technical Liaison: Joel Ulring
Project Coordinator: Briah Carlson
Panel Members:
    Bernard Izevbekhai - Materials & Road Research
    Charles Kremer - District 7
    Chris DeDene - City of St Paul
    Clark Moe - Maintenance
    Curt Turgeon - Materials & Road Research
    David Van Deusen - Metro District
    Dillon Dombrovski - City of Rochester
    Melissa Cole - Materials & Road Research
    Scott Holmes - Olmsted County Public Works
    Steven Henrichs - Materials & Road Research