ALARM - Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey
The key findings of the survey indicate a shortfall in the road maintenance budget of £943m for England excluding London, with 86% of local authorities believing that there is a threat to road users' safety, a 60% increase in claims by road users, with £93m paid out in claims, with a frequency of road surfacing of 51 years, a 10.4-year backlog given adequate funding and increase in visual defects of 69% and with 25% of the budget used on reactive maintenance. Figures for Wales were worse, with all authorities believing that there is a threat to road users' safety, a frequency of road surfacing of 61 years and a 130% increase in visual defects. Figures for London were generally less unfavourable. Local authorities highways engineers were mostly unwilling to use prudential borrowing to fund highway repair.
- Publication Date: 2005-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 33p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Condition surveys; Economic efficiency; Economics; Financing; Hazards; Insurance; Local government agencies; Maintenance; Pavements; Risk assessment; Statistics; Strategic planning; Walkways
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- ITRD Terms: 3857: Condition survey; 237: Economic efficiency; 255: Economics; 244: Financing; 2720: Footway; 1568: Insurance; 192: Local authority; 3847: Maintenance; 2955: Pavement; 141: Priority (gen); 9150: Risk; 9129: Risk assessment; 6555: Statistics; 8119: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; I60: Maintenance;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01111932
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Sep 30 2008 10:16AM