Pavement management systems uses the systems approach to provide a unified treatment of pavement design, testing, construction, maintenance, evaluation, and restoration. This book presents the general framework for pavement management, and describes the component activities that are part of pavement management. The authors consider all the materials, economic, traffic, and climatic factors that affect pavements, and present techniques that can be used for analysis as part of the management operation. This book presents the principles of applied systems engineering as well as the concepts of pavement engineering, enabling readers to review the entire process of pavement management and place their own activities and responsibilities in the larger systems context. Pavement evaluation and performance concepts are given thorough treatment, and all available working pavement systems models are discussed and compared. Pavement management systems offers the reader a complete survey that depicts relationships between materials, design, and mechanics and includes a comprehensive analysis featuring techniques for analyzing pavement investment options./TRRL/