FHWA Moves Forward with Management Road Map

Pavement Preservation Journal, Fall 2013, Vol. 6, No. 3
FHWA’s Focus Newsletter

Through a variety of initiatives, the Federal Highway Administration is moving forward with implementing its 2010 pavement management road map.

In 2010, FHWA published the Pavement Management Roadmap (Google FHWA–HIF–11–011). As described in these pages, the PM road map is a long–term vision for pavement management and the research, development, and technology transfer initiatives needed to help transportation agencies achieve that vision.

Asset management provides a coordinated approach to managing infrastructure assets over the course of their life cycle, thereby improving performance, increasing safety, and providing greater value to the community, FHWA says.  A new emphasis on asset management in recent years has also meant a new role for pavement management.

“Today asset management managers rely on pavement management data to develop a strategic program of projects that will make progress toward achieving the state’s targets for asset condition and performance of the National Highway System,” says FHWA’s Nastaran Saadatmand.

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