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 |
Introduction |
In 1996 WS Atkins began the design process for pavements at the new Chek Lap Kok (CLK) airport in Hong Kong.
The multi million-dollar airport was built on 100 acres of reclaimed land to the south east of the city of Hong Kong. Within the design process it was determined that Heavy Weight Deflection (HWD) testing would be carried out with two primary objectives:
- Confirm the design parameters
- Obtain baseline information to monitor the performance of the pavement.
Dynatest UK was hired to perform the HWD testing on the brand new untrafficked pavements.
After reviewing existing Airport pavement management systems, WS Atkins decided that Dynatest could effectively model the structural performance of the pavements into the future.
They opened discussion to see what might be done to develop a Pavement Management System (PMS) to utilize the HWD data as well as integrate other data the Hong Kong Airport Authority was collecting prior to the opening of the airport.
Hence, Dynatest began the development of AIRPORTS – Airport Information Retrieval for Pavement Optimization of Rehabilitation Treatments System©. The system needed to integrate PAVER PCI data and analysis, roughness data, and friction data with the HWD structural analysis.
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