Abstract:Accorling to the characteristics of the panel data of the pavement condition index(PCI) field data collected from different sections, a two linear mixed effect model was established with an extension of a three order polynomial by employing the fixed effect and random effect as random parameters to predict the airport pavement performance. The parameters were estimated by the mixed effects approach. Results indicate pavement sections’ heterogeneity may be captured not only through mixed effect but through random effect as well, which makes up traditional regression model’s deficiency and provides a more appropriate method for analyzing multi sections pavement performance data. At the same time, the effect model can use multi sections pavement information and improve individual’s estimation, therefore, it can estimate individual pavement condition which has little time series with a significant higher accuracy in predicting specific pavement conditions in comparison with ordinary least squares(OLS).