Use of Whole Life Costs in Network Level Assessments of Road Maintenance Budgets

Management of the maintenance of the national road network in England is currently determined by a combination of the overall condition of the network and the specific condition of individual road lengths. The new Highways Agency Pavement Management System (HAPMS) enables a detailed analysis of maintenance options for specific lengths of the network, using a whole life cost approach and this leads to the identification of maintenance projects to be undertaken within the available budget. This, however, identifies the best use of the specified budget rather than indicating the budget required for the network. A separate approach is needed to examine the effects of alternative budget levels. Techniques developed for the assessment of whole life costs of individual road lengths, have been applied in a network level whole life cost model for road network maintenance planning. The model uses routinely collected condition data for the network to generate practical maintenance works and identify the budget necessary to achieve a specified condition or to select the most effective maintenance options from a specified budget. Alternative levels of detail for the condition data may be used for analyses of different sizes of network. The actual condition of each road in the network is therefore included in the maintenance budget allocations and takes into account both the costs to the network operator and the effects on the road users. This approach has been used to support the bids for funds for discrete maintenance works on the national roads in England of more than $400M per year for the 3 year period from 2001.

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  University of Washington, Seattle

  Engineering Professional Programs, 10303 Meridian Avenue North #301
  Seattle, WA  United States  98133-9483
• Authors:
  • Sinhal, Ramesh
  • Abell, Richard
  • Ramdas, Vijay
• Conference:
  • Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements
  • Location: Seattle Washington, United States
  • Date: 2001-8-11 to 2001-8-14
• Publication Date: 2001-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements, August 11-14, 2001, Seattle, Washington. Conference Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assessments; Budgeting; Costs; Highway maintenance; Pavement management systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Miles of road (Road length); Road networks
• Geographic Terms: England
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01037889
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0971174016
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 2006 9:11AM