Sustainable Pavement Management System in Urban Areas Considering the Vehicle Operating Costs

Giuseppe Loprencipe, Antonio Pantuso and Paola Di Mascio
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Giuseppe Loprencipe: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, DICEA—via Eudossiana, 18, Rome 00184, Italy
Antonio Pantuso: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, DICEA—via Eudossiana, 18, Rome 00184, Italy
Paola Di Mascio: Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, DICEA—via Eudossiana, 18, Rome 00184, Italy

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Urban roads constitute most of the existing roads and they are directly managed by small administrations. Normally, these small administrations do not have sufficient funds or sufficient qualified personnel to carry out this task. This paper deals with an easy-implementation Pavement Management System (PMS) to develop strategies to maintain, preserve and rehabilitate urban roads. The proposed method includes the creation of the road network inventory, the visual surveys of the pavement and the evaluation of its condition by the Pavement Condition Index (PCI). The method intends to give a valid tool to road managers to compare alternative maintenance strategies and perform the priority analysis on the network. With this aim, the procedure assesses the Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC) by a written regression between PCI and International Roughness Index (IRI). The proposed method has several advantages because it can be easily adapted to various situations and it does not require a large amount of time and money for its implementation.

Keywords: urban maintenance; pavement management systems; pavement condition index; vehicle operating cost; sustainable cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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