Pavement Management
Contact: Sujatha Mohanakrishnan (508) 459-3335
Local Technical Assistance
Pavement management is an asset management tool for developing a list of needed roadway improvements and balancing those needs with a community’s available resources. CMRPC offers technical assistance to communities interested in pursuing pavement management activities. Services may include data collection and/or training for communities that have established pavement management programs, advice and direction for communities seeking to start such programs, or the development of five-year improvement plans for communities with limited ability to pursue a local program.
Regional Program
The CMRPC transportation staff initiated the development of the Regional Pavement Management program on behalf of the CMMPO for federal-aid highways in 1993 to optimize the use of the limited federal funding available for the repair and maintenance of the region’s National Highway System (NHS) and Surface Transportation Program (STP) roadways. Consistent with Regional Planning Agencies (RPAs) across the Commonwealth, CMRPC utilized Vanesse Hangen Brustlin’s (VHB’s) RoadManager software for this effort. In 1997, a prioritized listing of pavement maintenance and improvement projects was prepared for the STP roadway system. The data collected along selected NHS roadway segments was forwarded to MassHighway for use in its Pavement Management System at that time.
The CMMPO pavement management program focuses on the Town-Maintained Federal-Aid Roadways within the region. A three-year data collection schedule was developed in 2005 for this effort, with the intent of completing data collection activities on this network by the close of Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.
2006 CMMPO Pavement Management Annual Report
Transportation Evaluation Criteria
Since 2004, pavement distress data has been collected along roadways segments identified as potential candidates for inclusion on the CMMPO Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). CMRPC has also provided photographs to accompany the pavement distress data and associated condition rating. This information has been utilized as input to the Transportation Evaluation Criteria (TEC) process, but a regional network-level analysis has not been completed since 1997.