Rehabilitation
Pavement rehabilitation projects are a part of the pavement program that prolong the service life and enhance the safety of existing roadways. The goal of pavement rehabilitation projects is to repair damage in order to extend overall pavement life. UDOT established a "Purple Book" program for minor rehabilitation projects with a streamlined advertising approach for those projects that only needed pavement work.
These Minor Rehab projects are limited to pavement surface treatments only, and do not typically include drainage, roadway realignment, curb, gutter and sidewalk or signal work, with the exception of replacing signal detection removed as a result of resurfacing.
Projects where the pavement needs major rehabilitation, or fall outside of the limited scope will need to follow the traditional approach.
UDOT’s Central Pavement Management division analyzes UDOT’s roadway network condition each year and determines the percentage of the pavement preservation and rehabilitation program funding allocated for each region. The Regions identify pavement rehabilitation projects during their yearly STIP workshop meetings and the Utah Transportation Commission is presented with the project list for approval at the March or April commission meeting.
These projects will also follow the budget recovery process outlined by UDOT.