1. Micro PAVER Pavement Management System
For
City of Pittsburgh By
KMS & Associates, Inc.

2. Problem Deteriorating Pavements More traffic, trucks, buses
Less funding available
Road materials are more costly
Useful life of materials seems shorter

3. Answer Do nothing (doesn't work)
Repeat last years approach (again & again)
What is the industry doing?

4. Why Micro PAVER? Developed by the Army Corps in the late 70’s
Recommended by APWA (American Public Works Association)
Optimizes funds allocated for M&R
Utilizes the PCI methodology
PCI became an ASTM standard in 1999
Most widely used system in the world.

5. Local Micro PAVER Users
Cincinnati (Dick Cline )
Akron (Paul Barnett )
Summit Co. Oh (Greg Bachman
Marietta (Joe Tucker )
Washington Co. Oh (Bob Badger )
Westerville ( Jeff Kessler )
Franklin Co. Oh (Jaime Tickle )

6. Similarities Pittsburgh Akron Cincinnati Miles 800 900 Old&New Streets
Yes
Snow
43”
47”
23”
Founded
1758
1825
1788
Population
350,000
210,000
331,000
Area
55 sq mi
62 sq mi
77 sq mi
River
Allegheny Monongahela
Cuyahoga
Ohio
Hills

7. Pavement Management Plans, Organizes & Documents
Helps make better decisions
Provides support data for decisions
Answers what if scenarios
Objectively answers “what can be left out”
Shows the progress or lack of
Objective recommendations

8. What is a Pavement Management System? (Micro PAVER)
Inventory
Inspection (ASTM)
Reporting
Modeling
Condition Analysis
M&R Planning

9. Inventory Street Name (block - to & from) Length, width, area
Type of pavement (asphalt, concrete, etc.)
Rank (arterial, collector, residential, bus route)
Last const. date
Zones
Other Items

10. Sections
Numbered: West to East & South to North

11. Inspections ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)
Objective
Distresses
Severity
Quantity
Feet on the ground
Data must be correct Training & Dedication is essential
Micro PAVER produces a PCI (Pavement Condition Index) 0 to 100

12. Inspection Procedure (Alligator cracking)

13. Reporting, Analyzing, Planning
Graphs, Bar charts, Maps
Where you are now
Where you can be
Where you will be
How to get there
Funding
Value of Preventive Maintenance

14. $ Savings
Utilizing a Pavement Management System will save a minimum of 10 %.

15. Pavement Deterioration
$1.00 for preventive maintenance here . . .
$5 to $7 for Severe Maintenance Repair here… or several years of pothole patching if money is short !
Excellent
Condition
Failed
Age

16. Preventive Maintenance

17. If Only Condition Age Call line & again & again
Move the money spent here to here only less !!
Condition
Age
Probably not much more than a couple of years of patching

18. Micro PAVER Provides A Plan that can be explained
Documentation to support the Plan
Reinspection to confirm the Plan is on track and working
Objective before and after comparisons (responsibility)
A format to test new ideas

19. Micro PAVER vs Dump Truck (or resurfaced street)
The Micro PAVER is an investment in a new way of solving problems.
It provides the documentation to direct and justify decisions to provide savings.
This is an investment into having a better street system.
The dump truck or resurfacing is gone in several years with minimal lasting benefit for the system. vs

20. When Funding is short The Best decisions need to be made
Best treatment - best street - best time
More Documentation is needed for reasonable explanations
More public inquires are a certainty
Illustrations of just what is the result will provide sooner refunding
Be Proactive (something can be done)

21. Micro PAVER can produce
A listing of Streets to be Treated in the next 3 – 5 years.
Understanding that there are variables that could modify the list (up or down).
Funding, severe weather, material costs, changing traffic patterns
The list will include:
Preventive maintenance, routine maintenance and severely deteriorated street repairs (good, fair & bad) “A Balanced Program”

22. Now questions about the
Thank You
Now questions about the
Micro PAVER
Pavement Management System