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Success in any organization largely depends on making sound strategic decisions. Strategic decisions are inherent in the entire management process and impact all management and functional areas across the agency. Decisions are made during the formulation of strategic plans as a response to key management questions. Leveraging knowledge to support their strategic management decisions becomes vital for investing available funds in an effective manner. Methods to facilitate the timely flow of knowledge among management levels to provide feedback from practitioners and make adjustments along the planning horizon are needed. A multi-objective strategic pavement management approach (MOSPMA) for managing a pavement network is presented in this paper. MOSPMA introduces an overall framework that assimilates pavement management systems components with selected components from asset management systems, geographic information systems, and knowledge management systems into an integrated management system. The goal of the integrated management system is to provide decision makers with improved information by combining modern technologies with lessons learned from previous experiences. This leverage of knowledge should lead to superior investment strategies and general improvement of existing pavement management practices