A two-stage stochastic model for maintenance and rehabilitation planning of pavements (Q2298367)

Summary: Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation (M\&R) plan for maintaining the pavement quality in an acceptable level has direct influence on the required budget. Deterministic budgeting is an unrealistic assumption, so, in this study, a two-stage stochastic model using integer programming is developed to address uncertainty in budgeting. Another aim of this study is to develop an executive model that considers a broad range of parameters at network level maintenance and rehabilitation planning. While having too many details in planning problems makes them more complicated, some restrictions called ``technical constraints'' were considered to reduce solution time of solving procedure as well as improve M\&R activities assignment efficiency. Comparing results of the stochastic model with a deterministic model for a case study revealed that the two-stage stochastic model led to increased total cost compared to the deterministic one due to considering probability in budgeting. However, the developed model provides several M\&R plans that are compatible with budget variation.