Airport Pavement Management Systems
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Frank B. Holt, Pavement Management Engineer, Dynatest Consulting Inc., Florida
Stephen Wormald, Managing Director, Dynatest UK Limited, Chesterfield, England.
Peter Tindall, Airport Division, WS Atkins Consultants PLC, Epsom Surrey, England
The Next Ggeneration
PRESENTED FOR THE 1999 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONFERENCE April 1999
Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Terminal-building
| Introduction | The Airport | The Data | The Testing Equipment | The PMS Background | The PMS Features |
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Pavement Condition | The Airport PMS | Implementation | Conclusion / Bibliography |
The PMS – Features |
The AIRPORTS system began its birth early in 1997 with a review of the Dynatest road system.
A number of details were noted:
- Pavement Condition Index was not then a part of the modelling process.
- Maintenance projects were not fully integrated to the existing system
- Airports did not typically collect roughness/profile data.
- Friction data is typically collected on regular intervals at larger airports.
- User costs were not a serious consideration of the airport world.
- Delay costs were not used to evaluate rehabilitation alternatives at airports.
- The engineer and managers need to be able to see the affect of their decisions, long term, on the value of the authority’s investment. This will enable them to argue with clarity and confidence why budget and rehabilitation strategies were decided in preference to others.
As a whole the system must be able to Sustain the pavement in the best condition under given budget restraints. Provide the most Durable combination of solutions for a given section over the life of the pavement. And be Replicable both now and in the future by different personnel. |
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