AIRPAVE MANAGEMENT – AN INNOVATIVE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AIRPORTS

Rambøll and Copenhagen Airports have developed Airpave Management – a Pavement Management System for Airports. The overall objective of Airpave Management is twofold; to provide an information system, enabling the airport authority to handle and keep an easy track of all activity concerned with the maintenance of the pavements and to use all information on hand in the prediction of the timing and type of any future maintenance needs. The information system ensures that all relevant information regarding the pavements is stored in the same database. The most important feature of the system is the more complex approach of describing the condition, which is divided into three condition indices; a structural index, a functional index and an index describing the condition of the wearing course. This approach is deemed necessary for deriving more precise prediction of the type of future interventions. The type of maintenance applied by the system will depend on which of the three condition indices reaches the user defined minimum service level of each particular homogeneous pavement section. To get an even better estimate of the actual condition and future development of the pavements the system makes use not only of visual inspections but also of results from a range of objective measurements. This ensures a better estimate of future maintenance and rehabilitation needs on a project level, which is of major importance to any airport authority, enabling them to optimise budget allocations and avoid wasteful planning.

• INTRODUCTION

• INNOVATIVE FEATURES

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