DIRECTING RESEARCH TO ENSURE THAT COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO HIGHWAY PROBLEMS ARE FOUND AND IMPLEMENTED

In order to justify the cost, a research project should be judged to offer a good return on the capital investment. This can best be achieved by precisely describing the objectives, the means of obtaining them and the methods of assessing the results in a project description or framework. Each phase of the programme should be reviewed against the original specifications, which must include procedures to ensure that the results of the work are applied in practice. Appropriate quality must be observed at each stage and should be defined within the programme description. The example chosen to illustrate the various aspects of a project framework is that of a research programme to improve treatments to worn concrete road pavements: the main features of this being a literature review, pilot scale trials and full scale construction incorporating elements of training. (A)

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport and Road Research Laboratory

  Overseas Unit, Old Wokingham Road
  Crowthorne RG11 6AU, Berkshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • PARRY, J D
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9 p.
• Serial:
  • OVERSEAS CENTRE REPRINT
  • Publisher: Transport and Road Research Laboratory

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Costs; Developing countries; Highways; Maintenance; Planning; Repairing; Rigid pavements; Road construction
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00662194
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 28 1994 12:00AM