Some Pavement Management Systems give credit to crack sealing treatments by reducing the severity rating of the cracks to low, if the crack is adequately sealed, no matter what the original severity. One agency considers a sealed crack in their Pavement Management System as if the pavement was not cracked at all. Most agency Pavement Management Systems do not give any credit to effective crack sealing, even though benefits and life extensions have been proven. There is not a uniform method for including the benefits of crack sealing treatments into Pavement Management Systems.

The committee has interest in the development of a methodology for an agency to use to evaluate crack sealing effectiveness and incorporate into Pavement Management Systems Processes and recommended methods to incorporate life extensions provided by crack sealing treatments into Pavement Management Systems.

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