SUSTAINING PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT IN LOCAL AGENCIES THROUGH A REGIONAL AGENCY

Pavement management systems (PMS) in many local agencies in the United States of America have been abandoned, or relegated to minimal use, due to personnel turnover, changes in senior management direction, and lack of senior management support. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Oakland, California, has developed an approach to counter this problem. This includes a proactive support structure that maintains individual contacts with pavement management personnel in each agency. This paper describes a series of support approaches that were tried and adopted by MTC. It includes a partnership of regional government, local government, research institutions, and private enterprises. This can serve as a pattern for other regional or state agencies that are facing the problem of supporting local agency pavement management.