PAVER TM

sustainment
management system

In addition to reducing Effective pavement management PAVER is an innovative pavement management

system that can benefit military and other
pavement maintenance means knowing: federal organizations, municipalities, counties,
costs, PAVER helps to Details about your pavement network and airports, and any other organization responsible
how to quickly access important information. for managing a pavement network. It facilitates
improve quality of life
The comprehensive status of your pavement easy access to pavement inventory and
by promoting timely conditions. inspection information, enables accurate analysis
repair of damaged How to achieve optimal life-cycle maintenance of current and future conditions, provides for
graphical presentations of reports through a link
pavements, providing at the lowest cost.
with GIS software, and allows for optimization
smoother rides and How various conditions will affect pavement
of pavement maintenance and repairs within
performance.
reducing travel delays. Where you should spend your repair and
budget restraints. PAVER is currently used
worldwide by cities, counties, airport authorities,
> maintenance dollars. planning commissions, and universities.
The penalty cost of deferring pavement work.
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management system
PAVER features
Developed by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory, PAVER
is a scalable, enterprise-level
application for pavement
management. Part of a suite
of Sustainment Management
System (SMS) applications
including BUILDER, ROOFER,
RAILER, and WHARFERthe
PAVER pavement management
system can help users:
Develop and organize their
pavement inventory.
Objectively assess current
pavement conditions using
American Society for Testing
and Materials standards.
Develop customized models
to predict future conditions.
Report on past and
expected future pavement
performance.
Develop scenarios for
maintenance and repair
programs based on user
management objectives,
budget, or condition
requirements.
Plan maintenance, repair, or
replacement projects.
PAVER components and Wizards. Wizards assist the
capabilities user by providing a step-
Inventory. PAVER inventory
management is based on a
hierarchical structure that
allows users to easily organize
their inventory while providing
multiple fields and levels for
storing pavement data.
GIS interface. Users can view
GIS data directly in PAVER,
including inventory, inspection,
condition analysis, and work
plan reports.
Condition analysis. This
feature allows users to view
the condition of the entire
pavement network or any
subset, including past and
projected conditions.
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Inspection. Using the
Pavement Condition Index
(PCI) as its primary standard Good
for pavement condition
Pavement condition index
assessment, PAVER enables Satisfactory
users to customize PCI $1.00 for
Fair rehabilitation here
condition rating categories and
record inspection results. Poor
Significant drop
in condition Will cost
Prediction modeling. This Very poor $4.00 to $5.00 here
function helps users identify Serious Small % of
and group pavements of similar pavement life
Failed
construction that are subjected
to similar conditions affecting Time
pavement performance
(e.g., traffic and weather).
This data can be used to build
a model to accurately predict For each pavement section, PAVER identifies the maintenance and repair
future performance of a level and the work year to optimize funding and keep pavements above
group of pavements with critical condition.
similar attributes.
100 A: PAVER: Eliminate backlog in 5 years and maintain
Work planning. The PAVER all pavements above 60 in the following years
Work Planner tool is an $38M
essential feature for planning,
Pavement condition rating
Condition history
scheduling, budgeting, 70 + Unfunded backlog
and analyzing alternative $53M
pavement maintenance and
A B B. Ad hoc: Worst first
repair activities. 55
$19M
Total cost $38M $72M
Project planning. This feature
allows the user to insert User satisfaction High Low
(quality of life)
independently developed Vehicle maintenance Low High
projects into the PAVER work cost
plan, providing the ability Travel delay time Low High
to optimize PAVER project Economic impact Good Bad
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recommendations. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Year
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by-step process for several This image shows actual benefits for a road network that implemented
common tasks, such as setting PAVER in 2010. The projected maintenance and repair cost avoidance for
up field inspection forms and
the road network is $34 million over 10 years.
creating work history reports.
Atkins knows PAVER
We understand PAVER inside
and outhow it works and
how it can work best for your
pavement management needs.
We provide a full spectrum
of PAVER support, including Contact for more information:
training, implementation, web Scott McDonald
hosting, condition assessment, 719.227.7275
and scenario planning. We scott.mcdonald@atkinsglobal.com
can ensure that PAVER is Mitch Gordon, CFM
configured to meet your 719.227.7275
pavement management goals. mitch.gordon@atkinsglobal.com
Dennis Yates, CFM
210.321.2015
dennis.yates@atkinsglobal.com
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