... and sensitivity analyses. Keywords: economics & ®nance; pavement design; roads & highways Introduction Background Pavement management systems (PMS) have been developed and implemented widely for over two decades by road maintenance agencies around the world. China initiated its work in this area in 1984 following...

... for individual haulage operations, the setting up of new borrow/ disposal sites, the incorporation of project duration constraints and the determination of the optimum construction plan for various optimality criteria. A sensitivity analysis performed to investigate the effect of average sectional interval...