Design of an Integrated Pavement Management Systems with Geographic Information Systems
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Date
2018-09-21
Authors
ربايعة, ربيع حسام انيس
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An-Najah National University
Abstract
Palestinian road and transportation agencies are facing a monumental challenge in dealing with aging infrastructure. For pavements in particular, it is found that many streets were built 20 or 30 years ago and they are near the end of their economic life. Other streets have been deteriorated because of misuse, overuse and mismanagement. In addition, present and future threats affect the hoped mission of these pavements for rapid, safe and comfort movements of people and goods. Moreover, the current management reveals that the system used is not flexible enough to reflect the changing conditions and poor to assist in making decisions.
This study aims to Design an Integrated Pavement Management Systems with Geographic Information Systems (PMS-GIS). The PMS-GIS provides a systematic process of maintaining, upgrading and operating road pavements. The system also comprises a set of tools to facilitate a more flexible approach that will enable the users to perform tasks more economically, effectively and of higher quality.
The PMS-GIS is presented to facilitate the decision-making process. It is based on the direct integration between pavement management system (PMS) database accommodated in Microsoft Excel and GIS software in order to fully exploit the capabilities of each individual package. Also, a simple Graphical User-friendly Interface (GUI) has been developed to help the users present PMS results in more understandable way.
The PMS-GIS model was tested by a case study in which the system was fed by 15 km of paved roads from Rafidia Neighborhood in Nablus City. Finally, condition and prioritization analyses were successfully performed to determine ranking for maintenance needs.