Capital Pavement Preservation Program

About the Program

Category: Transportation (Best in Category)

Year: 2013

Mohave County, Arizona maintains a new Capital Pavement Preservation Program (CPPP) to identify, rank, schedule, and budget for the structural rehabilitation of County paved roads approaching end of service life. It represents a new transportation service toward achieving maximum return on limited road capital funds to sustain the County’s 308-mile network of paved regional highways, intra-place arterials, and major collectors. The Program’s innovative qualities lie in the technical basis of CPPP development, which employ practical and proven engineering methods to compute, monitor, and update a new, singular measure of pavement structural stability using readily available County road asset data and no-cost government published soils data. Pavement structural stability defines the relationship between active, traffic-induced pavement loading versus static pavement load carrying capacity. It constitutes the base CPPP technical criterion for diligent pavement rehabilitation project selection under long-term CPPP administration. Mohave County implemented its initial CPPP construction projects through a unique “smart” request for proposals process to establish a qualified products listing, through quality-based selection, on various pavement rehabilitation processes and treatment products to match an array of repair needs unique to each CPPP project.