About the Project

In 2002, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) Multimodal Operations – Aviation Section (Aviation Section) selected APTech to implement an Airport Pavement Management System (APMS), beginning with a pilot study involving five airports. The project was so successful that MoDOT retained APTech to expand the APMS to include most of the agency’s paved, publicly owned public-use airports. Since then, APTech has partnered with MoDOT several times to update the APMS, including the current on-call project. The APMS now contains seventy airports. Each update is typically divided into three phases with approximately one-third of the system’s airports inspected during each phase.

APTech’s work for each project phase includes updating the systems inventory and network definition and conducting Pavement Condition Index (PCI) inspections. The APTech team also customizes the PAVER database, analyzes the collected data, and generates project reports. In addition, APTech uses the collected data to develop a 5-year maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) program.

In 2011, APTech integrated the MoDOT Aviation Section’s APMS to APTech’s web-based interactive pavement data visualization tool, IDEA. Since then, IDEA has been a valuable resource to share pavement information in an easy-to-understand format. Consistent updates provide the MoDOT Aviation Section and stakeholders with the most accurate and updated information available. During previous project updates, APTech conducted a webinar on the use of the IDEA program for airport sponsors, performed structural testing with a falling-weight deflectometer (FWD), and calculated Pavement Condition Numbers (PCNs) for selected pavements.

APTech’s work allows the MoDOT Aviation Section to proactively manage the pavement infrastructure at its airports in the most fiscally responsible manner possible. It provides the MoDOT Aviation Section with the means to anticipate pavement-related funding needs, as well as provides National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airports with the information needed to remain in compliance with Public Law 103-305 regarding pavement maintenance management.