DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY FOR PRIORITY OF PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE FOR URBAN ARTERIAL

Abstract

Maintaining the roadway infrastructure takes great amount of money and time, big amount of money are
invested in road maintenance to ensure the mobility of people and goods. Therefore, prioritization of maintenance works
takes its importance for rating and ranking pavement conditions according to their relative importance thereby the costs
will be minimized and the funds can be used in effective way. Since PMMS is a planning tool for evaluating pavement
condition and deterioration caused by heavy traffic and weather effects, and contains a series of decision-making
methods to determine how and when to maintain and/or rehabilitate the pavement and which pavement should maintain
first, so that PMMS will be the most effective tool for enhancing prioritization process.This priority will determine the
best list of selected sections for maintenance based on particular criteria like pavement condition, field survey results,
traffic level, and pavement functions. Thus identify maintenance needs will result in control costs. Maintenance is
essential to preserve and enhance economic and social benefits. The main aim of this research work is to provide priority
index for maintenance of six sections of arterial roads in Rajkot city and developed methodology for priority of pavement
maintenance activities calculated in Simple Ranking Technique (SRT). And defined and suggested methodology for
PMMS in Rajkot city. Pavement Condition Index PCI was calculated in this study for rating and ranking the pavement.