Performance based pavement preservation for an integrated asset management in India

This paper presents a methodology to develop pavement preservation, an integrated strategy of highway asset management. An overview of pavement preservation-asset management concepts have been included. This paper highlights the available tools in India and their application to develop highway pavement preservation-asset management and its implementation. The suggested methodology integrates the pavement condition data management, pavement performance and its standards to generate pavement preservation program. Performance based pavement riding quality in terms of riding comfort index (RCI) criteria have been established to determine the preservation needs. Various pavement maintenance management tools developed by the authors were considered to formulate pavement preservation methodology. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E212095.