Presentation Summary:
A Pavement Management System (PMS) is a data driven decision making tool that helps agencies understand pavement condition, plan maintenance, and invest funding more strategically over time by combining inventory, condition data, performance modeling, and optimization. At the network level, PMS evaluates the entire roadway system using automated data collection and PCI scores to support budgeting, prioritization, and long-term planning, while at the project level it focuses on individual road segments using engineering tools such as FWD, GPR, coring, and structural analysis to develop precise rehabilitation designs. By linking these two levels, PMS allows agencies to move from reactive to proactive maintenance, extend pavement life, reduce unnecessary reconstruction, and achieve significant long term cost savings while improving overall pavement performance.
Biography:
Hossam Abohamer, Ph.D., P.E. (TX, NC, SC), is a pavement engineering professional with over a decade of experience specializing in pavement management systems, structural evaluation, and data-driven infrastructure planning. He has led and supported PMS programs for municipal and county agencies across Texas, California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Maryland, delivering condition assessments, performance modeling, and multi-year maintenance and capital improvement plans. His expertise includes large-scale Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data collection and analysis, structural capacity evaluation, and integration of subsurface data into network-level decision-making. Dr. Abohamer has applied FWD and GPR results to refine maintenance and rehabilitation strategies, calibrate decision matrices, and optimize treatment recommendations based on pavement structure, functional classification, and observed deterioration trends. His work consistently bridges field data, analytical modeling, and practical implementation to support defensible funding scenarios and long-term pavement performance for public agencies.