Specifications include, but are not limited to: PMS provides the storage and analysis tools related to pavement inventory, pavement history, pavement conditions, pavement actions, and all the necessary components to provide decision support for pavement project selection. This requires a lot of data collection and processing and interactions with many players with inputs. These inputs are used each year to generate candidate projects that optimize the use of funds to maximize the benefit of the overall system. These candidate lists are the beginning of selecting hundreds of millions of dollars in pavement projects annually. PMS data is also provided to Transportation Planning in several different aggregations. Transportation Planning then uses some of this data in a required HPMS submittal to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). FHWA uses the data for the biannual performance and conditions report sent to Congress. Another set of the data that Transportation Planning receives from PMS is used as inputs to EPFS to produce a needs score to prioritize major rehabilitation and reconstruction projects. Without the PMS data, EPFS cannot provide the project rankings which serve as the objective piece of the negotiations and discussions with local entities about the relative priority of many state highway projects. The Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) is a more recent addition to the business programs the PMS data is used to support. This is a federal requirement that basically requires KDOT to document how pavement and bridge decisions will be made and then to use targets and measures to show that KDOT is following the document and achieving their stated intentions. PMS is a critical component of producing the TAMP. Several other KDOT business units use performance indicators derived from PMS data. These include the TAMP, GASB-34, Fiscal, and even the IKE legislation includes a pavement performance measure requirement. Ideally, the calculations of these measures can be codified so that they are consistently performed, documented, and communicated. There are other users like Pavement Design, Research, Construction and Materials, Transportation Planning, Districts, KTA, Contractors, etc. who use PMS data or outputs to help make decisions. The ability to get to the data is important to many different users.
