Hello everyone!
This is a space for conversations about pavement management systems, hosted by the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems, “AFD10.” On a regular basis, we will invite members, friends, and experts to contribute articles with news, questions, ideas, or thoughts on pavement management systems. And we welcome everyone’s participation in the comments thread (just give us a little time to approve you for comments the first time you post one).
2015 is a big year for pavement management systems at least in the United States, as we all focus on finalizing, or implementing, or complying with, new rules on performance measures for our pavements. State Departments of Transportation are busy parsing through the rules proposed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), formulating their comments so that the process can move forward, and looking at their own business processes to see what it takes to comply with requirements. They may be bringing in outside experts on board to help, which means the private sector and academia are also active.
This flurry of activity makes the 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets especially timely and attractive as a way to become immersed in the topic, or to catch up on the rapid and major developments happening in the field with perspectives ranging from the local to the global.
And we hope this blog is a useful, lively, and easy way to be connected, and stay connected, to Pavement Management Systems.
Sincerely,
Ed
Edgardo D. Block, Chair, TRB Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems (AFD10)