MAINTENANCE OPERATION IN THE FIELD FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE OF ROADS FOR ALL SEASONS

A badly maintained road, besides reducing the life of the road, will result in increased vehicular fuel consumption and generally increased operating costs. To overcome deficiencies of the highway maintenance system described by the author in Goa, it is necessary to enforce controls and to adopt specifications and design procedures considering relevant factors such as location, climatic conditions, strength characteristics, drainage and traffic loads. The paper briefly details the introduction of such policies and suggests measures to improve the serviceability of such rural roads using improved pavement design and drainage specifications as well as the use of local laterite and lateritic murram road materials. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Seminar on Maintenance and Drainage Aspects of Road Pavements, Bangalore, July 1-4, 1982. Theme 3: Maintenance Operations in the Field (Use of Machines/Manual Methods, Equipment/Material Requirements, Training of Personnel etc).
• Corporate Authors:

  Indian Roads Congress

  Jamnagar House, Shahjahan Road
  New Delhi,   India  110 011
• Authors:
  • Anand, H R
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 25-38
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Indian Roads Congress
  • Publisher: Indian Roads Congress

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Flexible pavements; Highway maintenance; Improvements; Laterites; Maintenance; Maintenance practices; Pavement design; Planning; Road construction; Rural areas; Rural highways; Specifications; Surface drainage
• Geographic Terms: India
• Old TRIS Terms: Highway drainage
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 2944: Flexible pavement; 9108: Improvement; 8045: India; 4138: Laterite; 3847: Maintenance; 3055: Pavement design; 143: Planning; 3665: Road construction; 328: Rural area
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379150
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: ANALYTIC
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM