Roads are one of the most valuable infrastructure assets within a community. Proper maintenance of the roadway network can promote the prosperity of a community. In recent times maintenance has become much more difficult with the price of asphalt increasing drastically and city budgets contracting due to the economic downturn. With these conditions, the proper management of an agency0́9s street network is necessary. The use of pavement management systems provides the help needed in the preservation of the street network. The use of pavement management systems provides significant benefits such as identification of the most cost-effective pavement treatment actions and accurate predictions of pavement deterioration. The research objectives are to examine and explain how local agencies benefit by using an adequate pavement management system and to develop a pavement prediction model appropriate for use in local agencies. This report provides a comparison of three different Pavement Management Systems: TAMS (Transportation Asset Management System), a Pavement Management System (PMS) developed by Utah the LTAP (Local Technical Assistance Program), a PMS developed by the Alabama DOT for use in cities and counties, and Micro PAVER a widely used commercial PMS. Their unique characteristics and individual strength and weaknesses are discussed so that potential users of PMS can better decide what fits best their agencies' needs. Then TAMS is explained in detail as an example of pavement management system and a case study of its application in Tooele city, Utah. Then an economic analysis of no pavement management, a partial pavement management system, and a full pavement management system is provided. The full Pavement Management System showed a savings of about

Comprehensive and practical, Pavement Asset Management provides an essential resource for educators, students and those in public agencies and consultancies who are directly responsible for managing road and airport pavements. The book is comprehensive in the integration of activities that go into having safe and cost-effective pavements using the best technologies and management processes available. This is accomplished in seven major parts, and 42 component chapters, ranging from the evolution of pavement management to date requirements to determining needs and priority programming of rehabilitation and maintenance, followed by structural design and economic analysis, implementation of pavement management systems, basic features of working systems and finally by a part on looking ahead. The most current methodologies and practical applications of managing pavements are described in this one-of-a-kind book. Real world up-to-date examples are provided, as well as an extensive list of references for each part.