ROAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: PROGRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA. ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION CONVENTION HELD AT CSIR CONFERENCE CENTRE, MEIRING NAUDE ROAD, PRETORIA, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, 4-7 AUGUST 1986

Road management systems (RMSs) are used to assist in assessing the current and future needs for maintenance, rehabilitation, upgrading and geometric improvements of the country's road networks. RMSs are essentially planning aids to management, and this paper concentrates on the systems for planning at the network level. Besides the principal subsystems of RMSs, i.e., pavement management systems, unpaved roads management systems, maintenance management systems and geometric management systems, there are also auxiliary systems which consider traffic, accidents and geometry. RMS development being adopted in South Africa has been portrayed as a coordinated nesting of systems within systems, from the national level to communication with field staff. Although there is still much to be done, great progress has been made in the development of RMS techniques and their implementation over the last few years. The need for management systems is generally accepted and the feasibility of a road authority being able to operate them is now clear. For the covering abstract of the convention see IRRD 810249. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Curtayne, P C
  • Visser, A T
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• Features: References;
• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Geometric design; Implementation; Maintenance management; Networks; Pavement management systems; Planning; Roads; Traffic; Unpaved roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: South Africa
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 257: Budget; 8525: Conference; 9013: Development; 2855: Highway design; 9035: Inventory; 2885: Layout; 3847: Maintenance; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 141: Priority (gen); 3665: Road construction; 8103: South Africa; 9101: Surveillance; 689: Traffic count
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00470246
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-7988-3908-2
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1988 12:00AM