Development of a Pavement Preventive Maintenance Program for the Colorado Department of Transportation

Details

• Creators:
  Galehouse, Larry
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Pavement Preservation
• Corporate Contributors:
  Colorado. Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pavement management systems
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Guidelines
  • Rehabilitation
  • Reconstruction
  • Pavement maintenance
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CDOT-DTD-R-2004-17
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Colorado
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Colorado. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  NCPP was contracted to review CDOT's preventive maintenance program. Each region was visited to discuss various preventive maintenance treatments and examine current maintenance practices. Areas requiring further action before implementing a successful preventive maintenance program were identified. Implementation - Immediate:• Define, document, and distribute common terms throughout CDOT to assure a consistent vocabulary for understanding, describing, and communicating concepts. Define preventive maintenance.• Start modestly in implementing preventive maintenance, assembling the program methodically, and building on success.• Identify a champion to lead the integration of preventive maintenance.• Develop a statewide preventive maintenance manual containing guidelines, specifications, forms, estimating criteria, policy directives and best practices.• Develop and use statewide preventive maintenance specifications for every treatment type to establish uniformity.• Provide training addressing preventive maintenance and pavement management concepts, pavement and treatment selection, materials, application techniques, inspection, and quality control.• Establish a new policy providing clear direction for preventive maintenance. Parameters should be defined to clearly define boundaries between preventive maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.• State purchasing rules make it difficult sometimes in remote locations. Consider implementing a pilot project to determine benefits to warrant a possible rule change.• Regions should synchronize engineering and maintenance activities. Recommend a program coordinator in each region to oversee potential conflicts and to increase coordination and communication.• Perform an annual assessment of the preventive maintenance program and report findings to senior leadership in CDOT.• Recommend expanding the preventive maintenance treatment menu of items to increase competition.• Consolidate similar work into bigger contracts for new treatments to attract quality contractors and increase competition.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/93280/dot_93280_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.74 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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