# 12th International Conference on Concrete Pavements

29 August 2021 to 2 September 2021
Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot
UTC timezone

## Engineering Economic Analysis for Selecting Concrete Pavement Preservation Strategies

Not scheduled
20m
Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot

#### Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Podium Presentation Sustainability and Life Cycle Cost

### Description

Several different methods and techniques are currently in use for engineering economic analysis and pavement management strategy selection, including two newer approaches related to project-level strategy selection and network-level programming: Remaining Service Interval (RSI) and Cost of Ownership or Dollars per Lane-Mile per Year (DLMY). Both have a basis in LCCA techniques, with the DLMY approach offering promise for widespread implementation, particularly for pavement preservation analyses.

Many engineering economic analysis techniques (include current versions of the DLMY approach) are limited by their inability (in practice, at least) to differentiate between quantity of service (e.g., $/lane-mile/year) and quality of service (e.g.,$/lane-mile/[area under the serviceability-time curve for one year]). It may be reasonable to attempt to normalize these values for the level and composition of traffic using each facility (e.g., recognizing that there is generally more value to maintaining a higher level of serviceability on a high-volume road with heavy commercial traffic than there is on a low-volume local road).

The proposed paper will describe guidance that has been developed for incorporating these concepts for DLMY and other economic analysis techniques to extend their general usefulness.

### Primary authors

Prashant Ram (Applied Pavement Technology, INc.) Mark Snyder (Pavement Engineering and Research Consultants, LLC)

### Co-authors

Dr Tom Van Dam (NCE) Mr Kurt Smith (Applied Pavement Technology, Inc.) Mr Tom Yu (FHWA)

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