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NCPP Vision

Mission

To continue to lead a collaborative national effort among government, industry and academia stakeholders to advance and improve pavement preservation practices through education, outreach and research.

Vision

Promote the use of pavement preservation techniques and strategies to achieve sustainable network condition levels that satisfy user needs cost effectively.

Goals

  • Become the primary resource for pavement preservation practices and activities.
  • Promote the benefits of pavement preservation in partnership with the Foundation for Pavement Preservation (FP2) and Michigan State University (MSU).
  • To facilitate ground-swell changes in asset management from the philosophy of "worst first" to one of optimization, by encouraging the application of preservation treatments to good roads to keep them in good condition.
  • To work one-on-one with State Highway Agencies to evaluate, develop, and refine their preservation programs.
  • Harness the synergistic advantages of using the academic resources and programs of MSU and other academic partners to advance the knowledge and practice of pavement preservation.
  • Enhance pavement preservation knowledge from experience and fundamental and applied research.
  • Be a multi-service organization for establishing new pavement preservation programs or improving existing ones.



Maryland DOT Technical Appraisal, May 2007
Maryland DOT Technical Appraisal, May 2007

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