MODOT Pavement Preservation Research Program

To achieve the goal of reducing maintenance costs and improving minor road ratings, MoDOT has embarked upon a plan of formalizing its maintenance/preservation planning. To assist in developing the plan, MoDOT contracted with Missouri S&T and UMC to conduct a research project, entitled “MoDOT Pavement Preservation Research Program.” The product of this research would become a part of MoDOT’s overall Pavement Management System (PMS). The overall objective of the research was to provide a process that would allow MoDOT to do more selective planning, better engineering and more effective maintenance to minimize costs while maintaining adequate safety and performance of Missouri’s pavements.  In addition to a summary report, six Guidance Documents were created which will act as guidelines for MoDOT’s Pavement Specialists and Pavement Engineers. The work was divided into six tasks, each with its own research (Task) team. The focus of the research was on preservation strategies applied to minor routes.

Volume I , Summary Report
Volume II (Task 1), Data Collection for Pavement Management: Historical Data Mining and Production of Data
Volume III (Task 2), Development of Pavement Family and Treatment Performance Models
Volume IV (Task 3), Pavement Evaluation Tools--Data Collection Methods
Volume V (Task 4), Site-Specific Pavement Condition Assessment -- coming soon
Volume VI (Task 5), Pavement Treatment Trigger Tables/Decision Trees and Treatment Candidate Selection Process
Volume VII (Task 6),  Re-Calibration of Triggers and Performance Models

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Report number: cmr16-004
Published: October 2015
Project number: TRyy1141 
All Authors Involved: David N. Richardson, S. Michael Lusher, Andrew Boeckmann, Ronaldo Luna, Neil Anderson, Lesley Sneed, Brent Rosenblad, and John Bowders
Performing organizations: Missouri University of Science and Technology and University of Missouri-Columbia