TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH

1 T R A N S P O R TAT I O N R E S E A R C H. Number E-C098 July 2006. Maintenance Management 2006. Presentations from the 11th AASHTO TRB. Maintenance Management Conference July 16 20, 2006. Charleston, South Carolina TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD. 2006 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS. Chair: Michael D. Meyer, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Vice Chair: Linda S. Watson, Executive Director, LYNX Central Florida Regional TRANSPORTATION Authority, Orlando Division Chair for NRC Oversight: C. Michael Walton, Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin Executive Director: Robert E. Skinner, Jr., TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD. 2006 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES COUNCIL. Chair: Neil J. Pedersen, State Highway Administrator, Maryland State Highway Administration, Baltimore Technical Activities Director: Mark R. Norman, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board Christopher P.

2 L. Barkan, Associate Professor and Director, Railroad Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Rail Group Chair Shelly R. Brown, Principal, Shelly Brown Associates, Seattle, Washington, Legal Resources Group Chair Christina S. Casgar, Office of the Secretary of TRANSPORTATION , Office of Intermodalism, Washington, , Freight Systems Group Chair James M. Crites, Executive Vice President, Operations, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, Aviation Group Chair Larry L. Daggett, Vice President/Engineer, Waterway Simulation Technology, Inc., Vicksburg, Mississippi, Marine Group Chair Robert C. Johns, Director, Center for TRANSPORTATION Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Policy and Organization Group Chair Patricia V. McLaughlin, Principal, Moore Iacofano Golstman, Inc., Pasadena, California, Public TRANSPORTATION Group Chair Marcy S. Schwartz, Senior Vice President, CH2M HILL, Portland, Oregon, Planning and Environment Group Chair Leland D.

3 Smithson, AASHTO SICOP Coordinator, Iowa Department of TRANSPORTATION , Ames, Operations and Maintenance Group Chair L. David Suits, Albany, New York, Design and Construction Group Chair Barry M. Sweedler, Partner, Safety & Policy Analysis International, Lafayette, California, System Users Group Chair TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CIRCULAR E-C098. Maintenance Management 2006. Presentations from the 11th AASHTO TRB Maintenance Management Conference Hosted by South Carolina Department of TRANSPORTATION Sponsored by TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board American Association of State Highway and TRANSPORTATION Officials Federal Highway Administration July 16 20, 2006. Charleston, South Carolina July 2006. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board 500 Fifth Street, NW. Washington, DC 20001. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CIRCULAR E-C098. ISSN 0097-8515. The TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board is a division of the National RESEARCH Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the federal government on scientific and technical questions of national importance.

4 The National RESEARCH Council, jointly administered by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, brings the resources of the entire scientific and technical communities to bear on national problems through its volunteer advisory committees. The TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board is distributing this Circular to make the information contained herein available for use by individual practitioners in state and local TRANSPORTATION agencies, researchers in academic institutions, and other members of the TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH community. The information in this Circular was taken directly from the submission of the authors. This document is not a report of the National RESEARCH Council or of the National Academy of Sciences. Operations and Maintenance Group Leland D. Smithson, Iowa Department of TRANSPORTATION , Chair Maintenance Section Imad L. Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Chair John P.

5 Burkhardt, Winter Maintenance Committee, Chair Paul J. Carlson, Signing and Marking Materials Committee, Chair Wade F. Casey, Structures Maintenance Committee, Chair Kathy L. DesRoches, Maintenance and Operations Personnel Committee, Chair Larry Galehouse, Pavement Maintenance Committee, Chair Glenn R. Hagler, Maintenance Equipment Committee, Chair William H. Hartt, III, Corrosion Committee, Chair Larry N. Lynch, Sealants and Fillers for Joints and Cracks Committee, Chair Richard W. Shepard, Bridge Management Committee, Chair Dean M. Testa, Maintenance and Operations Management Committee, Chair Thomas C. Wickett, Polymer Concretes, Adhesives, and Sealers Committee, Chair Raymond G. Willard, Roadside Maintenance Operations Committee, Chair Frank N. Lisle, TRB Staff Representative TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board 500 Fifth Street, NW. Washington, DC 20001. Jennifer Correro, Layout and Proofreader Preface T his publication contains papers presented at the 11th AASHTO TRB Maintenance Management Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, July 16-20, 2006.

6 The objective of this series of conferences is to provide a forum every three to four years for the exchange of new ideas and developments in the maintenance and operations management of TRANSPORTATION facilities. The conference was hosted by the South Carolina Department of TRANSPORTATION , and jointly sponsored by the TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board, the American Association of State Highway and TRANSPORTATION Officials, and the Federal Highway Administration of the Department of TRANSPORTATION . It was integrated into the Annual AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Maintenance meeting and includes papers on outsourcing, pavements, roadside, winter operations, bridges, maintenance management systems, quality assurance, equipment, work force development, traffic services & safety. The views expressed in the papers contained in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Board, the National RESEARCH Council, or the sponsors of the conference.

7 The papers have not been subjected to the formal TRB peer review process. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Technical Program The technical program was developed through the joint efforts of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Task Force and Focus Group Leaders of the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Maintenance, and members of TRB Maintenance Section (AHD00). AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Maintenance Chairman: Carlos Braceras, Utah Department of TRANSPORTATION Vice-Chairman: Russell A. Yurek, Maryland State Highway Administration Secretary: Jim Sorenson, Federal Highway Administration Task Force Leaders Pavement: John Collins, Louisiana Department of TRANSPORTATION and Development Roadside and Environment: Mark McConnell, Mississippi Department of TRANSPORTATION Traffic Services and Safety: Gary McVoy, New York State Department of TRANSPORTATION Bridge: Pete Weykamp, New York State Department of TRANSPORTATION Snow and Ice: Jerry Horner, North Dakota Department of TRANSPORTATION Focus Group Leaders RESEARCH : Chris Christopher, Washington State Department of TRANSPORTATION Equipment: Erle Potter, Virginia Department of TRANSPORTATION iii Management Systems: Lacy Love, North Carolina Department of TRANSPORTATION Workforce Development: Jim Feda, South Carolina Department of TRANSPORTATION Performance Measures: Frank Richards, Alaska Department of TRANSPORTATION and Public Facilities Contract Maintenance.

8 Jim Carney, Missouri Department of TRANSPORTATION TRB Maintenance Section (AHD00). Chairman: Imad L. Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Members: John P. Burkhardt; Paul J. Carlson; Wade F. Casey; Kathy L. Des Roches; Larry Galehouse; Glenn R. Hagler; William H. Hartt, III; Larry N. Lynch; Richard W. Shepard;. Dean M. Testa; Thomas C. Wickett; Raymond G. Willard Staff: Frank Lisle; Brian Canepa iv Contents PART 1: OUTSOURCING MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES. Outsourcing Maintenance Management: A Field Perspective (MMC2006-002) ..3. Lansford C. Bell and Ryan Dlesk, Clemson University Evolution of Highway Maintenance Outsourcing in Alberta, Canada (MMC2006-006) ..14. Nick Bucyk and Moh Lali, Alberta Infrastructure and TRANSPORTATION PART 2: PAVEMENT PRESERVATION. Pavement Preservation Strategy Selection in California (MMC2006-016) ..29. Shakir Shatnawi and Rob Marsh, California Department of TRANSPORTATION , and R. Gary Hicks and Haiping Zhou, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.

9 Study of the Cost-Effectiveness of Various Flexible Pavement Maintenance Treatments (MMC2006-037)..45. C. Joel Sprague, Sr., TRI/Environmental, Inc. PART 3: ROADSIDE MAINTENANCE. PennDOT's Roadside Spray Future with RoSA (MMC2006-008) ..57. Joseph S. Demko, Pennsylvania Department of TRANSPORTATION , and Nate Reck, GeoDecisons MS4 Permit Compliance: Maintenance Operations Activities (MMC2006-041)..67. James Michael and Kellie Thom, Minnesota Department of TRANSPORTATION PART 4: WINTER MAINTENANCE. Deployment of Maintenance Decision Support Systems for Winter Operations (MMC2006-020) ..79. Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, David L. Huft, South Dakota Department of TRANSPORTATION , and Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc. Winter Performance Measures in Alberta, Canada (MMC2006-038) ..91. Roy Jurgens and Jack Chan, Alberta Infrastructure and TRANSPORTATION , and Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary v Ohio Department of TRANSPORTATION Road Grip Tester Project (MMC2006-049).

10 103. Diana Evans, Ohio Department of TRANSPORTATION PART 5: MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT, QUALITY ASSURANCE, AND LEADERSHIP. Statewide Implementation of a Maintenance Management System in North Carolina (MMC2006-022) ..117. Charles C. Pilson, Agile Assets, Inc., and Lacy D. Love and Jennifer P. Brandenburg, North Carolina Department of TRANSPORTATION Synthesis of Measures for Highway Maintenance Quality Assurance (MMC2006-051)..135. Teresa M. Adams and Janille Smith, University of Wisconsin Madison Four Leadership Principles to Help TRANSPORTATION Professionals (MMC2006-001)..154. David Ray, Ohio Department of TRANSPORTATION PART 6: EQUIPMENT. Using a Statewide Wireless Data Network for Maintenance Activities (MMC2006-009) ..171. Bob G. McCullouch, Joo Hyoung Lee, Wonjin Kang, and Michelle Leung, Purdue University, and Dennis Belter, Indiana Department of TRANSPORTATION Equipment Quality Improvement Measures: Large Truck Fleet (MMC2006-018).