An Iterative Approach for the Optimization of Pavement Maintenance Management at the Network Level

Table 1

Reviewed optimization methods consider either sequential or holistic approach.

		Sequential approach		Holistic approach
Optimization method		Treatment; strategy	Section; selection
Selection based; on ranking	Judgment		A20
	Pavement condition		A19
	Economic analysis	A20	A8, A20
Mathematical; optimization; methods	Linear and nonlinear programming	A12	A1	A6, A13
	Integer programming	A16	A17	A9, A22
	Dynamic programming	A8	A7, A11	A23
Near optimization; or heuristic methods	Incremental benefit/cost analysis	A18	A2, A18
	Local search heuristics	A5, A21
	Evolutionary algorithms	A11	A3, A7	A4, A14
Other optimization methods	Neural networks		A10
	Fuzzy logic		A15

Note. Code reference (A1, A2, …, A23) is defined in Table 2.