As a vital and integral component of transportation infrastructure, pavement has a direct and
tangible impact on socio-economic sustainability. In recent years, an influx of …

Decision-making in highway preventive maintenance (PM) is generally costly and
complicated. An inappropriate maintenance strategy could yield a low efficiency of budget …

The functional rural road network has a significant effect on the socio-economic growth of a
nation. Newly constructed road pavements deteriorate with time, their regular maintenance …

Highways play an important role in economic and social development at both national and
regional levels. As a major component of highway infrastructure, pavements require …

Light pavement rehabilitations and low-cost treatments are extensively employed among
transportation agencies on roads with relatively low traffic volumes to optimize available …

Over the last decade, significant progress has been made to customize the maintenance
policies of low-volume roads (LVRs) to local needs and available resources. Low-cost …

This study aims to evaluate the short-term effectiveness of four preventive maintenance
treatments (thin overlay, slurry seal, chip seal, and crack seal) on five typical pavement …

This study presented a Bayesian logistic model to evaluate the failure probability of asphalt
pavement preventive treatments. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation using …

This study aims to characterise fatigue cracking of two types of waste-derived (bio-oil and
LDPE) bitumen. Modified Paris' law and Griffith criterion were proposed to investigate crack …

Preventive maintenance treatments are extensively used in pavements due to their many
benefits, including lowering life-cycle costs. Although the effectiveness of preventive …