COUNTY MAINTENANCE OF UNPAVED ROADS IN INDIANA
Unpaved roads still form a substantial proportion of the county road network in Indiana and most of the United States. A survey of maintenance practice on such roads by the Purdue University Highway Extension and Research Project for Indiana Counties and Cities shows the existing diversity in maintenance activities, standards, methods, and practices. Faced with the problem of inadequate funds, most highway departments have adopted methods of providing the barest maintenance, and little attempt is made to adopt available guidelines. Clearly, there is a need for uniform practices among counties. In addition, suitable guidelines should be adopted. Such guidelines will enable decisions to be made about project priorities, deferment of major maintenance, paving gravel roads, level and type of maintenance, appropriate abandonment criteria, and levels of expenditure. The suggestions are made that available research material provides a good basis for the development of such guidelines and that suitable maintenance management systems can be implemented successfully in various counties and local areas to provide for any special needs of unpaved roads.
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Authors:
- Riverson, John D N
- Sinha, Kumares C
- Scholer, Charles F
- Publication Date: 1984
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 34-40
- Monograph Title: Localized pavement repairs and pavement maintenance management
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 985
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Abandonment; Expenditures; Guidelines; Highway maintenance; Highways; Maintenance management; Strategic planning; Unpaved roads
- Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria
- Geographic Terms: Indiana
- Old TRIS Terms: Abandonment /highway/
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00399183
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309037697
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM