Pavement Branch Use and Section Rank Prioritization

Pavement branches and sections are prioritized to establish their relative importance during the M&R budget analysis. The highest priority branch use for any airport is the runway, followed by taxiways and then aprons. Section rank refers to the relative importance assigned to multiple pavements having the same branch use. Each pavement section is assigned a rank of primary (P), secondary (S) or tertiary (T). As an example, an airport with two runways might rank the more heavily used jet service runway as primary and the general aviation runway as secondary or tertiary.

The combination of the branch use and the section rank is used to define the priority of each section during the M&R budget analysis. Table 15 presents the branch use and section rank prioritization matrix used in budget analysis for the Alaska Airport PMP.