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Moderators

• Abbas Kachwalla (AECOM)
• Bridget Malinowski (AECOM)

Panelists

• Jose Rodriguez (Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, IL)
• Michael Wegrzyn (Village of Richton Park, IL)
• Jonathan Stelle (Village of Hanover Park, IL)

Abstract

In recent years, the concept of pavement management systems (PMS) has grown rapidly at a local municipal level nationwide. The use of a PMS is intended to provide municipal agencies with a systematic process for cost-effectively managing their pavement network, which may include roadways, parking lots, and alleys. Growing needs for effective pavement management are often coupled with diminishing budgets, placing even greater emphasis on effective and timely decision-making with regard to treatment selection and application. PMS has arisen out of this need, and represent the process of monitoring, maintaining, and repairing a pavement network to provide maximum user benefits for given funding levels. In this project, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) implemented PMS for 90+ municipal agencies from 2018 to 2025 located around the Chicagoland region. Having metropolitan agencies like CMAP bring PMS to the local agency level has several benefits like cost effective implementation pricing, group discussion of best practices, and future agency collaborations.

The PMS implemented for each agency included network definition, Pavement Condition Index (PCI) survey per ASTM D6433 standards, prediction models, maintenance and repair policies, and budget analysis. This panel discusses current municipal practices, existing conditions, repair budgets, and required funding to improve conditions. This project explores budgets available to the various municipal agencies, the allocation of funding to maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction work. It presents the gap in funding to allow agencies to maintain a safe and healthy pavement network for their residents. It also discusses the difference in network pavement conditions of agencies performing maintenance and preservation activities from those that are not. The majority of agencies traditionally adopted a worst-first approach to addressing surface pavements; by implementing a PMS, there has been exposure to available resources, decision-making processes and broader understanding in managing pavements. As a result of PMS implementation, agencies have been able to secure additional funding for pavement repair, better prioritize their street for repairs, and perform repairs at the right time, especially preventive maintenance.

Presentations

Pavement Management Systems for Local Municipal Agencies, State of Current Conditions and Practices