Resilience-Based Pavement Asset Management is an essential course for understanding and addressing the challenges of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation in Canada. This course presents a resilience-based framework that emphasizes the importance of maintaining pavement resiliency to prevent failures and ensure long-term performance. Key components of the course include:

• Developing a comprehensive central database for asset inventory.
• Utilizing models for assessing pavement condition and level of service.
• Conducting regression analysis to understand the impact of freeze-thaw cycles on pavement.
• Applying financial and temporal models to optimize investment planning.
• Integrating these elements into a cohesive optimization model for resilience assessment.

Through detailed case studies, students will observe the practical application and effectiveness of this framework in maintaining pavement resiliency. The course highlights the benefits municipalities can gain from adopting resilience-based asset management, despite potential implementation challenges. This course is ideal for professionals aiming to enhance their expertise in infrastructure management and pavement resilience.