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The US Army Corps of Engineers developed MicroPAVER™ at their Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois for road and airfield
pavement maintenance management on military bases. In 1979 the American Public
Works Association (APWA) through its Research Foundation initiated a technology
transfer. Funding for this action was a $250,000 cooperative effort of 80 local
agencies in the United States and Canada who took part in testing and evaluating
the PAVER software. Originally, a mainframe time-sharing based system PAVER has
been modified for use on microcomputers and re-titled: MicroPAVER™ .
MicroPAVER™ is currently being used by over 600 cities, counties, airports and private consulting
firms. MicroPaver's™ Pavement Condition Index (PCI) methodology received the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard D6433-99. Receipt of this standard means that
MicroPAVER™ is the only Pavement Management System to have received an ASTM standard designation.
Standard D6433-99 is the only pavement rating methodology recognized for rating road and parking lot
pavements. This standard, together with MicroPaver's™ earlier receipt of ASTM Standard D5340-93
for rating the condition of airfield pavements, makes MicroPaver's™ PCI the standard for describing
the condition of all pavement uses.
In addition to being an ASTM standard MicroPaver's™ approach to pavement maintenance management
also provides full compliance with the Modified Approach to accounting for infrastructure in the Government
Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Standard 34.
MicroPAVER™ is also the pavement management system adopted by the Federal
Aviation Administration, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy and Air National Guard. Feedback on
performance and requests for enhancements from these users forms the basis for an ongoing process of
program modification. As these modifications are released for general distribution they are provided
to Users' Group members at no additional cost. User support and responding to requests for software
modifications/enhancements is the most critical element in the long-term success of a PMS. Quite a
few PMS software packages have come and gone in the last twenty years because their proponents were
unable or unwilling to provide the support and responsiveness users required. One of the primary
strengths of MicroPAVER™ lies in the long-term durability of Corps of Engineers and APWA involvement
in supporting user software, information and training needs.
paver@apwa.net
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
Grants/Cooperative Agreements