RANKING AND OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGIES ---SECOND NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON MANAGING PAVEMENTS, 2-6 NOVEMBER 1987, ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

Papers presented at this session include: recent developments and potential future directions in ranking and optimization procedures for pavement management (cook,wd and lytton,rl); sample size selection (scullion,t, lytton,rl and templeton,cj); the economic optimization of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation policy (markow,mj, brademeyer,bd and sherwood,j); achieving efficiency in planning and programming through network-level policy optimization and pavement management (paterson,wdo and fossberg,pe); a dynamic programming approach to optimization for pavement management systems (feighan,kj, shahin,my and sinha,kc); a decomposition approach for rehabilitation and maintenance programming (gendreau,m); a computationally efficient system for infrastructure management with application to pavement management (nesbitt,dm and sparks,ga); a micro-computer Markov dynamic programming system for pavement management in Finland (thompson,pd, neumann,la and miettinen,m). For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 807044.