FAA PAVEAIR Update 

RPD 143 

Presented to: REDAC

By: Al Larkin and Qingge Jia, Airport Technology   R & D Branch, Jason Tarby, SRA International

Date: September 11, 2013

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Nondestructive Airport Pavement Testing(RPD 143)

Contract Funds ($K)

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FAA PAVEAIR Status

January-June 2013 Visits: 1.1 Million

Databases Created since release: > 400  

Some databases have a large number of airports, such as Utah, Wyoming. 

Registered Users since release: 942 

Received several request to use the FAA PAVEAIR program, such as South Africa.

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Prediction Modeling

• Assign pavement sections with similar   construction and traffic patterns into a family model

Plot PCI deterioration curve

Prediction Modeling Library (Feb 2014)

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Prediction Modeling Planned Updates

Support multiple databases - done 

Update the curve fitting algorithm for better result

Create an algorithm to calculate Critical PCI from the family curve

Better support of the 40 year life project

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Climate Module and Traffic Module

Investigate adding Traffic and Climate Module:

Currently FAA PAVEAIR uses Distresses for PCI calculation, Prediction, and M&R

Distresses are caused by Climate, or Traffic, but Climate and Traffic data is not used in PCI, Prediction and M&R

Investigate feasibility of directly using Traffic and Climate data in PAVEAIR calculation

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Improve Life Cycle Cost Analysis 

Review of FAA PAVEAIR / AirCost by an Engineering Economist

Elaborate on key elements of LCCA for both asphalt and concrete paving materials

Comparison with other LCCA programs / algorithms

Elaborate on issues, differences, and problems / deficiencies

Report of findings and proposal for further development

Users Group meeting to review and discuss

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Airport Database Locations

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Add Materials, Construction, and Cost Functions to FAA PAVEAIR

Collect airport pavement inventory, thicknesses, inspection, and work history data.

Also collect material type, material unit costs, M & R strategies, and traffic and climate considerations.

The intent is to create and populate a database repository of US airport pavements.

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Add Materials, Construction, and Cost Functions to FAA PAVEAIR

In conjunction with the traffic and climate feasibility studies, the data repository will allow users to create pavement families for Prediction Modeling.

Follow on work will include design of Data Warehouses for data reporting and data mining and  analysis.

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FAA Software Integration

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Software Integration 

Use FAA PAVEAIR as the data center for software integration

Data format agreement between FAA programs

Receive data from FAA Pavement Programs, such as COMFAA, FAARFIELD

Exchange calculated data between FAA programs 

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Pavement Software Conversions

Upgrade Visual Basic (VB6) to modern Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Ensure compatibility with latest Microsoft Windows OS

All FAA applications to be run using the same technology

Prepare for future data sharing between applications

All source code under source control

Change logs

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COMFAA Conversion

Second FAA pavement program to be converted

Same functionality

Similar interface

Interface design (XAML) kept as close to the original as possible

Works on all versions of Windows since XP, including Windows 8

Works on 32bit and 64bit OS

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Software Conversion Status

BAKFAA

FAARFIELD

FEAFAA

ProGroove

A WPF version of ProFAA already exists

Evaluate differences between VB6 version and WPF version

Review ProVAL application

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