DAMMAM MUNICIPALITY PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (DMPMS)
Hamad I. Al-Abdul Wahhab, Rezqallah H. Malkawi ,
Ibrahim M. Asi, and
Jaweed Yazdani
The 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, KFUPM,
Dhahran, December 2002 Vol. 3.
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the development process of the
pavement management system for Dammam Municipality
road network. The system integrates different subsystems that included: (i) pavement features coding, (ii) visual pavement
evaluation, (iii) equipment-based pavement evaluation, (iv) maintenance and
repair strategy selection, (v) maintenance priority ranking, (vi) pavement condition
prediction, and (vii) reporting. These subsystems were all integrated to form
the Dammam
Municipality Pavement
Management System (DMPMS). The system is a customized
computer software that is a knowledge-based Visual Basic Windows application.
It has been designed to provide an easy-to-use PC product. It is a completely
interactive menu-driven error-checking application, which is supplemented by a
full active self-explanatory help facility. The DMPMS was tested and implemented
for Dammam road network. The implementation
activities included a review and evaluation of data collection procedures and a
development of distress manifestation manual, preparation of the software
documentation, and Dammam Municipality
personnel hands-on training. It is hoped that the developed system will improve
pavement performance and yield significant savings in pavement maintenance in
the long term.
Keywords: Pavement, Maintenance,
Performance, Distress, Dammam Municipality,
Management System