Paper ID#: 192

Paper Title: Pavement Management Strategy and Requirement for Ohio Department of Transportation

Primary Author: H. Lee

Abstract Text : Since the mid-1980s, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has used a priority ranking system called “PMS-II” for multi-lane and interstate systems. To enhance the system with priority optimization and multi-year budgeting features, “PMS-III” was developed in early 1990. Now, however, these systems are not currently being used by ODOT because they neither meet its current needs nor are adaptable to its changing requirements. Furthermore, these systems lack the necessary data to drive them accurately. To determine what ODOT wants and needs from a PMS, 90 employees from a cross section of the ODOT were surveyed. The survey results indicate that: 1) all historical distress data, original construction, and M&R history should be stored, 2) consistent prediction models should be developed and distributed to all Districts, 3) pavement data collection procedures should be more automated, and 4) a new user-friendly PMS on a PC is critically needed. In conclusion, the new ODOT PMS should be as simple as possible, readily accessible, user-friendly, flexible, relatively inexpensive, and capable of providing needed information for decision-making at all levels; it should also interface with the existing GIS and databases at ODOT.