Review of road pavement performance in various countries

ntroduction. High quality and durable highway pavements are one of the preconditions for the efficient road traffic in every country. Problem Statement. The high-level and scientifical design, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation of pavement structures – pavement management – can be taken as an important task of road owners – and in the case of state-owned roads, it is directly an obligation. An important subsystem of road asset management comprises several technical tools as pavement management systems (PMSs). Pavement performance models are an essential component of a PMS and have a direct impact on future pavement condition. Pavement structural design is always a rather responsible and hard task since it is obvious that the designer must forecast (predict) – using preferably scientifically based methodologies – the performance of pavement structures to be built in the future. The reliability of this forecast, of course, mainly depends on the accuracy of the design inputs applied. The complexity of the is-sue can already be characterized by the fact that, at least, traffic, environmental, raw material, construction, maintenance-rehabilitation, operation-related and financial parameters should be considered in the prediction of pavement performance (expected lifetime) during the design (selection) of optimum pavement structural variant. (The interrelationship of these influencing parameters just makes the situation even more complicated. Purpose. The main aim of the article is to present various aspects of pavement performance in Hungary and Albania.