FACT #48
Cost Effectiveness
Road agencies such as state DOTs and city/county public works departments use Pavement type selection processes to identify the best pavement for a given application.
Pavement type selection processes may be as simple as specifying a certain type of pavement on the basis of traffic level, or as complicated as assigning weighting factors to more than a dozen characteristics and evaluating the outcome through a scoring system. A white paper on pavement type selection provides guidelines that agencies and others will find valuable.