MARCH - AN AID TO OPTIMISING MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURE

The paper examines the MARCH-Maintenance Assessment, Rating and Costing for Highways--system as used by two county council highway authorities, West Midlands County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. Both councils have used the system extensively since introducing it in 1974/5. While both authorities use the final output in very similar ways, their means of achieving the input to the system varies considerably and the paper details these differences, the advantages and disadvantages and relative costs to each authority, in particular: (a) inventory - the benefit and costing of a full inventory from the beginning versus an annual inventory of those roads requiring treatment; (b) assessment--the benefits and costing of a full assessment of all roads on a two/three yearly cycle versus an annual assessment of the worst roads that the authority can afford to treat; (c) priority list of treatments--the use of the output from the system as an engineering tool in identifying problem areas and possible treatment and as a management tool in allocating funds on a comparable basis in agent districts and directly maintained areas; (d) staffing--the benefits and costing of the different methods of inventory and assessment on the number and type of staff used to carry out the survey. In conclusion, the benefits that can accrue from varying the treatment intervention levels to suit local policies. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Highway Construction and Maintenance. Proceedings of the Seminar J held at the PTRC's 10th Summer Annual Meeting, University of Warwick, July 12-15, 1982.
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• Authors:
  • Maxted, D J
  • ROBINSON, J P
• Conference:
  • Planning & Transport Res & Comp, Sum Ann Mtg, Proc
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 61-73

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Budgeting; Classification; Computer programs; Conferences; Costs; Evaluation and assessment; Highway maintenance; Highways; Information processing; Inventory; Local government; Local government agencies; Maintenance; Personnel; Physical distribution; Strategic planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 257: Budget; 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9016: Distribution (gen); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 2755: Highway; 9035: Inventory; 192: Local authority; 3847: Maintenance; 102: Personnel; 141: Priority (gen); 8645: Software; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00380301
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-111-6
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM