Pavement management and asset management side-by-side

The paper discusses concepts related to an asset management approach for managing a pavement network. It explains the relation and difference between an asset management system and a pavement management system. It also describes needed elements from a pavement management system supporting an overall asset management system. Following a brief overview of both pavement management and asset management concepts, this paper discusses issues comparing pavement management and asset management, a description of components that should be included in either cases and/or both cases, and a description of the benefits that can be achieved applying asset management concepts on pavements. One of the major outcomes from this paper can be to facilitate the methods and tools that should be used in communicating messages clearly to stakeholders of infrastructure assets, especially a pavement network. Other outcomes include uses of management tools for a better network level management of pavements. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E212095.