ERASME: AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE

To facilitate decision making in the area of road maintenance the Directorate of Roads in France decided to use artificial intelligence techniques and to rapidly make available to various government agencies an expert system serving as an aid to decision making on maintenance. ERASME (a French acronym for road maintenance assisted by a multiexpert system) aims to produce an operational expert system by mid-1988 for flexible pavements, by mid-1989 for bituminous pavements, and by the end of 1989 for hydraulic binder-treated pavements. This article reviews its present status of development.