In recent years, concrete block pavements became more and more popular for urban areas like shared spaces or pedestrian zones. Architects and planners especially like slab pavements for their wide and slim design. To provide sufficient bearing capacity slab pavements with cement-bound joints and foundation on a hydraulically-bound base layer made of pervious concrete are often used. Therefore, a mechanistic-empirical design method for this type of pavements was developed. To determine the structural response of the pavement to traffic loading a sophisticated finite element model considering the cohesive behavior at the interfaces between slabs (joints) and between slabs and foundation was introduced. Additionally, an innovative laboratory fatigue test for hydraulically-bound base layers was developed and used to determine the long-term behaviour of an optimized concrete mix, which combines good bearing capacity and sufficient drainage capabilities. The derived fatigue criterion was used to evaluate the resulting deteriorating effects of occurring stresses and strains at the bottom of the base course. Using the developed pavement design method, standard constructions for slab pavements with cement-bound joints and foundations on a hydraulically-bound base course made of pervious concrete have been developed to be implemented into the Austrian standard pavement design catalogue according to Austrian standard RVS 03.08.63.