Developing Specifications for Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts

Details

• Creators:
  Damnjanovic, Ivan D. ; Kim, Seok ; Deshpande, Vighnesh P.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Contracts
  • Economies of scale
  • Mathematical models
  • Pavement maintenance
  • Optimization
  • Rehabilitation (Maintenance)
  • Administration and Management
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Highways
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/08/167161-1 ; Research Report 167161-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  01106142
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  Performance-based maintenance contracts are becoming an increasingly popular method of procuring maintenance work. This study presents a framework for specifying such contracts. This framework is based on developing a pavement reliability model that is able to account for the effects of rehabilitation actions. The developed reliability model is able to predict the pavement performance before as well as after rehabilitation actions. Numerical illustration for optimization model shows that the developed model can be used to obtain an optimal tradeoff between cost and performance. Further, the model considers a tradeoff between economies of scale associated with managing longer pavement sections, and risk mitigation benefits with managing relatively smaller, e.g., more homogeneous, sections. The results indicate that the length of optimal management sections depends not only on risk premium costs, but also on the ability of the contractor to explore economies of scale. The model is illustrated using typical data available to transportation agencies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  10727
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40325/dot_40325_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.90 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:045a984c66b80a3d355f2b272464d5fe5f311f58e410141e49478cf16feda53d