Decision trees are the logic that is used by the analysis tool to determine what treatments are appropriate for a given pavement section under certain circumstances. Typically, a Decision Tree is composed of various engineering decisions and reflects the agency’s overall pavement maintenance strategy. It requires the agency’s input to build a decision tree.
During the analysis, the application will first apply the Decision Tree logic to determine the candidate treatment for each section in Network Master, before the optimization routine kicks in to select the candidate treatments based on various criteria.
In the system, a full Decision Tree set is the combination of an Upper-Level Decision Tree and one or more Lower-Level Decision Trees. These Decision Trees are then grouped into a Decision Tree Set.
Configuration of Decision Tree is done in two decision tree related windows: Upper-Level Decision Tree window and Decision Tree window, both of which can be accessed by following the steps below:
- Select Setup from the top banner menu
- Click Analysis Setup
- Click Decision Trees
- Click either Upper Level Decision Tress or Decision Trees
For additional information about decision trees, see the following topics:
