Pavement management at the strategic level

Pavement management is used nowadays on strategic decisions made by government officials, transportation boards, city councils or an agency s upper management. All are charged with 

Traditionally, strategic decisions have been less structured than decisions made at other levels and the information on which decisions are based is more speculative, requiring the ability to predict future conditions under a variety of scenarios. In the absence of reliable information to serve as the basis for sound business decisions, political priorities may prevail (AASHTO 2012). 

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