SECOND-GENERATION HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Highway maintenance management systems are composed of six interrelated system elements: planning, budgeting, scheduling, performing, reporting, and evaluating. Improvements must be made in all of these elements to develop a second-generation maintenance management system, which is a far more effective and responsive management tool. When highway maintenance management systems were first developed, it was established that they were being designed for managing maintenance to avoid the implication that they were an accounting system or could be used for one. The rigid adherence to this precept, although it eliminated some possible problems, also created deficiencies. The need for this separation was also brought about by the relatively unsophisticated state of computer technology at the time when maintenance management systems were first designed. Advances in computer technology and data management now permit the convenient and efficient transfer of data between systems. The elimination of deficiencies common to early system designs through the use of these advances is the source of opportunities for the development of second-generation maintenance management systems. Some of the advantages that can be attained are a reduction in the number of forms completed in the field and the amount of information on them, greatly simplified means of collecting accurate costs when required for invoicing, labor costs that may be reconciled exactly with those obtained from a payroll system, equipment costs that exactly reflect rental rates from the equipment management system, the elimination of the necessity of recording management information on equipment reports and salary vouchers, improved accuracy of material costs, and improved costs and procedures for the development of performance budgets.

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• Authors:
  • Rissel, Martin C
• Conference:
  • 63rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1984-1-16 to 1984-1-20
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 95-101
• Monograph Title: Maintenance management systems in evolution
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 951
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Building materials; Highway maintenance; Maintenance equipment; Maintenance management; Management information systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390372
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309036712
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM