Pavement and Asset Management contains contributions from the World Conference on Pavement and Asset Management (WCPAM 2017, Baveno, Italy, 12-16 June 2017).

For the first time, the European Pavement and Asset Management Conference (EPAM) and the International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA) were joining forces for a global event that aimed not only at academics and researchers, but also at practitioners, engineers and technicians dealing with everyday tasks and responsibilities related to transport infrastructures pavement and asset management.

Pavement and Asset Management covers a wide range of topics, from emerging research to engineering practice, and is grouped under the following themes:

• Data quality and monitoring
• Economics, political and environmental management, strategies
• Deterioration models
• Key performance indicators
• PMS-case studies
• Design and materials
• M&R treatments
• LCA & LCCA
• Risk and safety
• Bridge and tunnel management
• Smart infrastructure and IT

Pavement and Asset Management will be valuable to academics and professionals interested and/or involved in issues related to transport infrastructures pavement and asset management.

Maurizio Crispino is Professor at the Departament of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.