Predicting Pavement Performance for Establishing Resurfacing Needs at the Network Level Pavement Management System: Phase I Report (RF 7245-1)

This report presents the work accomplished during Phase I of the research study. Chapter 2 of the report describes the evaluation of the performance data from the PCS data base to identify the predominant distress types on Florida pavements and functional relationships for modeling the observed trends. Based on the results from this evaluation, functional forms of the prediction equations for cracking, rutting and serviceability loss were derived and are presented in Chapter 3. Data requirements for developing prediction equations for model parameters are then identified in Chapter 4. This is followed by a description of the proposed network level prioritization scheme in Chapter 5. Finally, Chapter 6 presents recommendations for completing the development of the project selection procedure in Phase II.