Page | 12 Sustainable Structure and Materials, Vol. 2, No .2, (2019) 12-22 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26392/SSM.2019.02.02.012 Role of GIS in Enhancing the Pavement Management System Aya Ahmad* 1 , Bekir Salih Firincioglu 1 1 Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus *Corresponding author/ E-mail address: aya_ahmad20@hotmail.com (Received June 06, 2019, Accepted January 09, 2020) ABSTRACT. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have being used for several decades for its practicality in all aspects of applied sciences, engineering applications and governmental works as well as applications in private sector. GIS offers an ease of applicability to the works that can take immense amount of time to perform manually. Although, building a GIS network requires a lot of monetary investment at the initial stage, the investment pays off in a very short time. Pavement management systems (PMS) is a program for developing the quality and execution of road by top management mechanism. Thus Geographical Information Systems (GIS), with their spatial investigation abilities, coordinate the land idea of the street systems, they are viewed as the most suitable devices to improve Pavement management (PM) the activities, with highlights, for instance, graphical view of road condition. Today, most of the widely used online road networks are essentially based on GIS which allows users to forecast various properties along the pavement networks. In this paper, it will be aimed at showing the most critical benefits of using Geographical Information Systems in Pavement Management Systems. A comparative work is being planned such as showing some applications of PMS by performing it manually and automatically with GIS. Also, applications of the tools for pavement management systems that are adopted world widely such as pavement condition index (PCI) will be highlighted with a special focus on the integration with GIS. Keywords: GIS, PCI, PMS 1. INTRODUCTION Heywood et al., (2011) analyzed the meanings of GIS from different researchers and summarized that the definitions spread the accompanying principle segments [1]:  GIS is a program and use by computer system  GIS utilizes spatially referenced information  GIS completes different information investigation errands Although GIS was definition by Burrough in 1986 “as a powerful set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes” [2]. GIS has included two types of spatial data, vector, and raster as shown in Fig 1 the first one is vector spatial data which it can display all quantities data in GIS, and the second one is raster that it can any type of digital images, like a representation of topography or aerial photograph [3, 4].