Network-Level Pavement Asset Management System Integrated with Life-Cycle Analysis and Life-Cycle Optimization
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 19, Issue 1
Abstract
The authors have developed a new network-level pavement asset management system (PAMS) utilizing life-cycle analysis and optimization methods. Integrated life-cycle assessment and cost analysis expand the scope of the conventional network-level PAMS from raw material extraction to end-of-life management. To aid the decision-making process, the authors applied a life-cycle optimization model to determine the near-optimal preservation strategy for a pavement network. The authors utilized a geographic information system (GIS) model to enhance the network-level PAMS by collecting, managing, and visualizing pavement information data. The network-level pavement asset management system proposed in this paper allows decision makers to preserve a healthy pavement network and minimize life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or cost as a single objective, and also meet budget constraints and other agency constraints within an analysis period. A case study of a pavement network in Michigan compares the near-optimal preservation strategy to the Michigan DOT’s current preservation practice. Compared with the current preservation plan, the optimal preservation strategy reduces life-cycle energy consumption, GHG emissions, and cost by 20, 24, and 10%, respectively. The authors also analyzed the impact of annual preservation budget cuts on total life-cycle cost. A US$3 million annual preservation budget reduction (75% reduction of current annual budget) will significantly increase user cost (caused by congestion and pavement surface deterioration) by US$450 million for a 40-year analysis period.
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Acknowledgments
This research was funded through an NSF Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES) Biocomplexity Program Grant (CMS-0223971 and CMS-0329416). MUSES supports projects that study the reduction of adverse human impacts on the total interactive system of resource use, the design and synthesis of new materials with environmentally benign impacts on biocomplex systems, and the maximization of efficient use of materials throughout their life cycles. The authors also thank the support of the Terman Faculty Fellowship at Stanford University.
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Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 19 • Issue 1 • March 2013
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Received: Jun 4, 2011
Accepted: Jan 12, 2012
Published online: Jan 14, 2012
Published in print: Mar 1, 2013
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