MERGING CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA

The organization of the South Dakota Department of Highways up to the fall of 1980 is described, and the details are given of the reorganization, in that year, to provide adequately staffed and trained construction inspection and maintenance crews. A full-time equivalent ceiling, imposed by the budget, required a change that would allow placement of construction or maintenance personnel at a project site. Changes in the central office administration included merging the separate construction and maintenance programs into one Operations Support Office: the total department staff was reduced by 10 to 12 full-time employees. Some of the responsibilities of the construction office were transferred to the field offices. 1983 saw the reorganization of the department plan that eliminated one of five district headquarters; the field units were organized into four regions with a region manager in change of each. Field maintenance units with low mileage were closed. The construction engineering stations that were not located at the 12 area headquarters were also put on a list for elimination. In 1984 the Department will have a field staff of 930 people (down from 1,100 in 1969). This includes the 4 region headquarters and their administrative and operations staff, the 12 areas with their construction engineering areas, and 75 maintenance units. The maintenance units are organized into crews of from 5 to 10 people charged with the responsibility of looking after from 100 to 200 2-lane miles of highway. This reduction of staff together with the fact that the highway system would require as much if not more maintenance attention means that some of the work would be done by contractors and by consulting engineers.

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• Authors:
  • Gere, William M
• 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
• Pagination: pp 146-148
• 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: Administration; Contractors; Highway engineers; Highway maintenance; Inspectors; Maintenance personnel; Personnel management; Road construction; Transportation departments
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: South Dakota
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390382
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309036712
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 2001 12:00AM