Pavement maintenance management on the roads of Khuzestan province by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

摘要

In all countries, an enormous budget is annually spent on road maintenance. Investigating the situation of existing ways and recognizing their damage can give a widespread view to experts and those involved about how to distribute funds. Khuzestan province is one of the widest provinces of the country which is the route of many trucks because of having multiple ports and common border with Persian Gulf and Iraq. In this study, at first the ways of province has been examined and one of the axes has been selected as a sample and then the damages of this axis has been removed and its impact rate on pavement condition index has been determined. The most critical failures have been identified in the following. A questionnaire has been prepared for this work and has been distributed among province’s pavement experts and the results have been calculated in Expert Choice software. At the end, the conclusion of these calculations has been presented.