This guide provides network level PMS users with an outline of the basic components of a PMS to ensure the specific system the user selects or develops fulfills the agency needs and requirements.

This guide may be used by agencies or organizations wishing to develop, evaluate, or refine a network level PMS.

The basic components of the PMS described in this guide are location reference, information collection, data base management, analysis, implementation, operation and maintenance.

Within each basic component a list of possible types of data, information, models, etc. are provided for consideration by the user agency. These lists are neither all inclusive nor exclusive. They are intended for guidance only.

1.1 This guide outlines the basic components of a network level pavement management system (PMS).

1.2 This guide is intended for use in the management of traveled pavement surfaces, including roads, airfields and parking lots.

1.3 This guide is not a standard method or practice, that is, it is not intended to provide a comprehensive PMS in a user specific application.