Proposal and Implementation of a Heliport Pavement Management System: Technical and Economic Comparison of Maintenance Strategies

Paola Di Mascio, Alessio Antonini, Piero Narciso, Antonio Greto, Marco Cipriani and Laura Moretti
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Paola Di Mascio: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Alessio Antonini: Leonardo, Department of Vergiate Fal-Aeroporto Vergiate-Plant Maintenance, Via Roma 51, 21029 Vergiate, Italy
Piero Narciso: Leonardo, Department of Vergiate Fal-Aeroporto Vergiate-Plant Maintenance, Via Roma 51, 21029 Vergiate, Italy
Antonio Greto: Leonardo, Department of Vergiate Fal-Aeroporto Vergiate-Plant Maintenance, Via Roma 51, 21029 Vergiate, Italy
Marco Cipriani: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Laura Moretti: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-12

Abstract: Maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) scheduling for airport pavement is supported by the scientific literature, while a specific tool for heliport pavements lacks. A heliport pavement management system (HPMS) allows the infrastructure manager to obtain benefits in technical and economic terms, as well as safety and efficiency, during the analyzed period. Structure and rationale of the APSM could be replicated and simplified to implement a HPMS because movements of rotary-wing aircrafts have less complexity than fixed-wing ones and have lower mechanical effects on the pavement. In this study, an innovative pavement condition index-based HPMS has been proposed and implemented to rigid and flexible surfaces of the airport of Vergiate (province of Varese, Italy), and two twenty-year M&R plans have been developed, where the results from reactive and proactive approaches have been compared to identify the best strategy in terms of costs and pavement level of service. The result obtained shows that although the loads and traffic of rotary-wing aircrafts are limited, the adoption of PMS is also necessary in the heliport environment.

Keywords: heliport pavement; pavement management system; M&R; PCI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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