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New York State DOT presents their work plan for developing a TAMP. The report provides information on the purpose of a TAMP, the resources required for creation of a TAMP, the structure of the TAMP, and how to move from a concept to a final plan.

Minnesota DOT presents their work plan for developing a TAMP. The report provides information on the purpose of a TAMP, the resources required for creation of a TAMP, the structure of the TAMP, and how to move from a concept to a final plan.

Louisiana DOTD presents their work plan for developing a TAMP. The report provides information on the purpose of a TAMP, the resources required for creation of a TAMP, the structure of the TAMP, and how to move from a concept to a final plan.

This report addresses the process for creating a transportation asset management plan (TAMP), and provides guidance by offering a generic workplan for the development of a TAMP.

This manual provides support for users of the Pavement Health Track Analysis Tool. The manual offers information on installation and use of the tool's various functions.

This workbook takes a hands-on approach to providing support for users of the Pavement Health Track Analysis Tool. The workbook offers information on installation and use of the tool's various functions, including examples for clarity.

A checklist detailing the procedure for full depth reclamation construction.

The twelfth installment in the pavement preservation checklist series, focusing on the procedure for cold in-place asphalt recycling.

The eleventh installment in the pavement preservation checklist series, focusing on the procedure for hot in-place asphalt recycling.

This study was conducted as part of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Task Order “Improving FHWA’s Ability to Assess Highway Infrastructure Health.” This portion of the study had the objective of developing a next generation pavement performance measure that provides an accurate and repeatable assessment of the functional condition of the roadway. The measure is to combine ride quality, cracking, and rutting or faulting and rely entirely upon data from the Highway Performance Management System (HPMS) database. Over the course of the study, the effort shifted away from a single composite index of ride quality, cracking, and rutting or faulting to using these distresses individually. This report provides recommendations for collecting, processing, reviewing, and storing each of these distresses. Further recommendations are made with regard to assessing pavement condition based upon the stored values.

"An effective pavement management system depends on reliable, accurate, and complete information. Having quality pavement management data is directly linked to the ability of the pavement management system to contribute to the development of reasonable and reliable recommendations and decisions regarding an agency’s pavement network. Pavement condition data are one of the key components of a pavement management system. Pavement condition data are used to model pavement performance, to trigger various actions ranging from maintenance to rehabilitation to reconstruction, to evaluate program effectiveness, and to satisfy many other purposes. While there are many different methodologies used for assessing pavement condition, ranging from manual surveys to fully automated procedures, the need for quality data remains the same. Agencies take a number of steps to ensure and verify data quality, including calibration of the data collection equipment or the inspection teams, incorporating quality control sections that are reinspected to assess repeatability, and verifying reasonableness and completeness of the pavement condition survey. The ability to evaluate and determine the quality of pavement condition data is essential for establishing the accuracy and reliability of analyses made using pavement condition. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored the development of a Practical Guide on Quality Management Procedures for network-level pavement condition data. The Practical Guide provides information related to the development and implementation of a QM program, incorporating proven QM practices, and showcasing examples or case studies using pavement condition data from a variety of state DOTs."

The objective of this study was to enhance and develop the Pavement Health Track (PHT) Analysis Tool for the FHWA to provide improved performance, recalibrated analysis models, and modeling of maintenance treatments on the pavement remaining service life (RSL), and to improve the graphical user interface and reporting features. The PHT Analysis Tool is an engineering software application for determining and reporting the health of pavement networks in terms of the pavement’s RSL. The PHT Analysis Tool uses performance models recently developed by FHWA for the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) and the National Pavement Cost Model (NAPCOM). These pavement models are based on concepts developed under National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Projects 1-37A and 1-40D and included in the Interim American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), making them a simplified version of the more complex mechanistic-empirical (ME) set of models and procedures used in the Interim AASHTO MEPDG. This report presents an overview of the simplified MEPDG models incorporated into the PHT Analysis Tool along with a detailed description of PHT Analysis Tool approaches to determining pavement RSL, a description of the maintenance model, guidance on setting up the PHT Analysis Tool input database from HPMS and other databases, and guidance on setting key parameters for determining overall RSL.