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Abstract
Accurate and consistent pavement condition evaluations are essential for developing reliable pavement maintenance management systems. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has developed a Pavement Condition Evaluation System (PACES) to meet this need. PACES has been used to evaluate the pavement conditions on the entire highway system in Georgia annually since 1986, and the results have been used for developing the maintenance plans. As a pan of the development of the Transportation Information System and the implementation of the Information Technology (IT) initiatives currently undertaken by the GDOT, a computerized pavement condition evaluation system (COPACES) was developed in 1998, which incorporated all the features of PACES. Through the utilization of IT, the management of the state's highway pavement maintenance program has been greatly enhanced by incorporating many additional features into COPACES. COPACES was successfully implemented in early 1999 for evaluating the pavement conditions for all asphalt pavements in the Georgia highway system. This paper presents the main features of COPACES and the implementation of this system by GDOT. Additional features that are currently under development for COPACES are also described in this paper.