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An Optimization Framework for Pavement Treatment and Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Work Zone Closures

Author/Presenter: Abi Aad, Mirla; Abbas, Montasir
Abstract:
Departments of transportation are responsible for maintaining the roadway network at certain pavement levels and operational performance. While these two metrics are often looked at separately, we developed a framework in a previous study that integrates pavement and operational considerations and allocates for the interaction between them. This paper expands on the developed framework to zoom in on a work zone allocation module that better represents realistic operations and constraints while making decisions at the network level. The focus of this paper is on the development of a systematic and comprehensive methodology to optimize the allocation of networkwide pavement treatment work zones over space and time. We propose a novel adjacency function that can be used as a surrogate measure for the network travel time obtained from a full-scale simulation run. Our findings confirmed the hypothesis of the strong relationship between the travel time obtained from the developed adjacency function and that obtained using full-scale simulation. The predicted versus actual plot shows a high R squared value of 0.96, which is a good indication for using the adjacency function for computing network travel time in lieu of running full-scale simulation.
Source: Transportation Research Procedia
Volume: 82
Publication Date: 2025
Full Text URL: Link to URL
Publication Types: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Topics: Construction Scheduling; Highway Maintenance; Road Closure; Simulation; Travel Time; Work Zones

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