Sustainability of pavement research programs through knowledge management, realistic policy objectives and quantifiable performance indicators

The University of Waterloo's Center for Pavement and Transportation Technology, CPATT, is committed to knowledge management as a cornerstone of it's long term strategic planning and sustainability. Knowledge is considered as an asset; it has value, and thus should be integral to asset management. In CPATT's approach, three basic types of knowledge are used: • Explicit, which is essentially documented information • Implicit, or "know how", and • …