ROLES FOR A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AGENCY IN COUNTERING LOCAL AGENCY INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS IN ADOPTION AND USE OF PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

A unique support relationship for a local agency pavement man-agement system (PMS) was established in the San Francisco Bay Area. The activities included were developed to address local agency institutional issues that have often led to dis-continuing the use of pavement management or to not using it fully. These issues include personnel turnover, overcom-mitted staff, perceived complexity of PMS, and limited funds for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. Since 1984 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the re-gional transportation planning agency for the San Francisco Bay Area, has supported the development and use of PMS by cities and countries in its region. During the past 9 years, 55 jurisdictions, representing more than 60 percent of the street and road centerline miles in the region, have been at some stage in the implementation and use of the Bay Area PMS. MTC