Description:
The objective of Task 5 was the development of pavement treatment trigger tables and the treatment candidate selection process.
The input to the trigger tables entails such factors as an overall condition indicator, smoothness, individual distress types-extent-severity (e.g. thermal cracking, block cracking, fatigue cracking, longitudinal cold joint cracking, joint reflective cracking,
longitudinal wheel path cracking, longitudinal edge breakup, patches and potholes, raveling, polishing, stable rutting, corrugations
and shoving, bumps and sags, bleeding, D-cracking, pop-outs, spalling, corner cracks, faulting), pavement type, history of
treatment, and some measure of traffic, through a surrogate such as Surface Age. Output is one or more potential appropriate
treatments, which would consider pavement condition, traffic, climate (which affects construction timing and treatment
performance), work zone duration (e.g. traffic control issues), time of year construction, construction quality risk, availability of
quality contractors and quality materials, longevity of treatment, and availability of funding. Trigger tables include preservation
treatments (chip seals, micro-surfacing, slurry seals, ultrathin bonded asphalt wearing surface (UBAWS), crack sealing, crack
filling, thin overlays, mill and fill, profile milling, hot in-place recycling, cold in-place recycling, diamond grinding, whitetopping,
load transfer retrofit and joint repair, and partial/ full depth repair).