When You Can't Afford to Fix Everything: How to Triage Your Road Network

Most pavement management advice assumes you have enough budget to do the math properly. But many city managers I talk to are looking at a budget that covers maybe half of what their network needs, and they want to know: where do I put the money?

The answer isn't your worst roads. It's the roads where your dollars protect the most value. Those are different things, and confusing them is how cities spend their entire paving budget on roads that were already too far gone to save.