RECENT POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS TO PAVE ALL UNPAVED SECONDARY ROADS IN NORTH CAROLINA

North Carolina has the largest state-maintained highway system in the nation, consisting of 76,727 mi. Of this total, 59,310 mi (77%) is on the rural state secondary system. As of January 1989, 16,358 mi (28%) of the rural state secondary system remained unpaved. Between 1981 and 1988, the department was only able to pave 2,293 mi of unpaved rural state secondary roads, an average of 287 mi per year. At this rate, it would have taken 55 years to pave all the remaining unpaved rural secondary roads in the state. Faced with the inadequacy of the existing revenue source--a motor fuel tax of 1 3/4 cents/gal generating about $68 million annually--for all types of secondary road paving, the 1989 North Carolina General Assembly created the North Carolina Highway Trust Fund, which is designed to provide $9.2 billion of additional funding for new primary and secondary highway and bridge construction throughout the state over a 13 1/2-year period. The policy decisions and legislative actions behind North Carolina's secondary road paving program and the manner in which candidate projects are ordered by priority are explored. The discussion should be of interest to all state and county highway agencies responsible for low-volume road paving and maintenance.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1291, Fifth International Conference on Low-Volume Roads, May 19-23, 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, Volume 1. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Authors:
  • Robinson, David C
  • Kendig, Thomas R
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Low-Volume Roads, 5th, 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Publication Date: 1991

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 69-73
• Monograph Title: Fifth International Conference on Low-Volume Roads May 19-23 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; volumes 1 and 2
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1291
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Fuels; Highway maintenance; Legislation; Low volume roads; Modernization; Policy; Ratings; Rural areas; Secondary roads; Strategic planning; Taxation; Unpaved roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Trust funds
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00611746
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030905715
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1991 12:00AM