This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report, "Application and Validation of RSI Framework to Pavements" (FHWA-HRT-16-053). The goal of this project was to demonstrate and to validate the application of the pavement remaining service interval (RSI) concept with real data. This TechBrief first describes the RSI concept and then addresses the following key questions: Does the RSI concept work? How can RSI benefit highway agencies? What do agencies need to do to implement RSI?
The pavement remaining service interval (RSI) terminology was developed to remove confusion caused by the multitude of meanings assigned to the variou...
Tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue hinder efforts of transportation agencies to resurrect pavements in poorcondition. As a “stop-...
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