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B-1 A P P E N D I X B Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses Respondent Information The following 45 agencies completed the survey: • Alabama DOT • Alaska DOT & Public Facilities • Arizona DOT • Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department • Caltrans • Connecticut DOT • Delaware DOT • Florida DOT • Georgia DOT • Hawaii DOT • Idaho Transportation Department • Illinois DOT • Indiana DOT • Iowa DOT • Kansas DOT • Kentucky Transportation Cabinet • Maine DOT • Maryland State Highway Administration • Massachusetts DOT • Michigan DOT • Minnesota DOT • Mississippi DOT • Missouri DOT • Montana DOT • Nevada DOT • New Hampshire DOT • New Jersey DOT • New Mexico DOT • North Carolina DOT • North Dakota DOT • Ohio DOT • Oklahoma DOT • Oregon DOT • Pennsylvania DOT • Rhode Island DOT • South Carolina DOT • South Dakota DOT • Tennessee DOT • Texas DOT • Utah DOT • Vermont Agency of Transportation • Virginia DOT • Washington State DOT • West Virginia DOT • Wisconsin DOT
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B-2 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Responses to Questionnaire 1. What maintenance or surface preparation activities does your agency perform prior to constructing pavement preservation treatments on flexible pavements?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-3 Q1 Comments: • Above measures are recommended but are not mandated before preservation treatments. • Crack sealing is the most common.
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B-4 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 2. What maintenance or surface preparation activities does your agency perform prior to constructing pavement preservation treatments on concrete pavements?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-5 Q2 Comments: • Bad/odd question. The list is activities that we do during the pavement preservation project.
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B-6 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 3. How is the decision made to perform maintenance prior to pavement preservation?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-7 Q3 Comments: • Both apply because we have annual patching projects that occur, but the need could also be identified during the scoping process. • One district is new to pavement maintenance in regard to crack seal, fog seal, etc.
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B-8 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 4. If maintenance (as part of pavement preservation)
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-9 5.
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B-10 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Q5(a) Comments: • All maintenance actions shall be completed a minimum of 30 days prior to preservation treatments.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-11 • Preparation activity can occur in the same year or one year before, and sometimes part of the contract. Depends on the scope of the preparation, and closer it is to preservation activity the better.
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B-12 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 5.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-13 6. Where in the agency is the decision most often made to perform maintenance or surface preparation before preservation?
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B-14 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Q6 Comments: • All decisions are made locally unless there is a programmed preservation contract involved, then the central office is involved. • All maintenance decisions are made at District level.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-15 • There may be some guidance in the central office specifications. • We leave that to our local District folks.
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B-16 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 7. Is there an amount of pre-preservation maintenance or surface preparation work that is too much, so that neither that work nor the subsequent preservation treatment would be successful or cost-effective?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-17 Q7 "Yes" explanations: • Cost. • Cracking type and severity can rule out a section as being too far gone for preservation.
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B-18 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments • Too much crack sealing is an indication the road is not a good candidate for a surface treatment, or too much concrete patching may make other, heavier treatments more costeffective. • We analyze the cost of maintenance repair versus rehabilitation costs.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-19 8. How is maintenance or surface preparation prior to preservation paid for?
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B-20 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments • Maintenance forces may use State funding to do repairs prior to a preservation contract. Otherwise, repairs and surface preparation are included in the federally funded preservation contract and performed just prior to the surface treatment.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-21 9.
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B-22 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 9.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-23 • Agency oversight. • Getting the decision maker trained to know what to do is often the issue.
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B-24 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 10. How is maintenance or surface preparation accomplished when the preservation treatment is applied with in-house resources?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-25 *
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B-26 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments 11. How is maintenance or surface preparation accomplished when the preservation treatment is applied under contract?
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-27 • In-house resources or under the same contract as preservation treatment. • May be performed by in-house or by separate contract.
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B-28 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Q11 Comments: • Also, quite a bit done with in-house resources. • Crack seal could be performed by Routine Maintenance Agreement (RMA)
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-29 12.
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B-30 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments • Not tracked but have documentation with a PbM or DMA project. • Our Work Plan spreadsheet (Excel)
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-31 12(b) What types of information are tracked?
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B-32 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Q12 Comments: • Also tracked in the Maintenance Management System. • Materials, Labor, Equipment and Cost information is tracked in a separate system than Treatment, Location and Performance.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-33 13. If maintenance and surface preparation actions are tracked, identify the types of associated information that is tracked.
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B-34 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments Q13 Comments: • All part of the preservation treatment contract. • In-house only.
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-35 14. Would you be willing to participate in a follow-up interview of 20 to 30 minutes to provide more details about your agency's practices?
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B-36 Maintenance and Surface Preparation Activities Prior to Pavement Preservation Treatments
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Summary of the Received Questionnaire Responses B-37 15. Please use this space to provide any additional thoughts or comments related to the application of maintenance or surface preparation prior to preservation that were not covered in the preceding questions.
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Abbreviations and acronyms used without definitions in TRB publications: A4A Airlines for America AAAE American Association of Airport Executives AASHO American Association of State Highway Officials AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACI–NA Airports Council International–North America ACRP Airport Cooperative Research Program ADA Americans with Disabilities Act APTA American Public Transportation Association ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials ATA American Trucking Associations CTAA Community Transportation Association of America CTBSSP Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program DHS Department of Homeland Security DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FAST Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (2015) FHWA Federal Highway Administration FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration GHSA Governors Highway Safety Association HMCRP Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers MAP-21 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (2012)
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