Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance Management: Case Study of a Small Urban City

A transportation infrastructure maintenance management system (TIMMS) for a small urban city is developed. Uintah, Utah, year 2005 population 2,000, is studied. As of Fall 2001, this suburb of the Salt Lake City–Ogden urban area featured 12 km of paved roads, 133 traffic signs, 18 street lights, pavement markings, and other transportation infrastructure. A part-time city engineer was responsible for maintaining the transportation and other infrastructure. A formal TIMMS was not in place. A TIMMS emphasizing preventive maintenance on all infrastructure, along with corrective maintenance on all pavements, was estimated to require about 79% of the city engineer's time, at an annual cost of about $88,000, or $7,330/km of road (2002$). About 75% of the expenses would be devoted to pavement preservation. The cost would exceed the city's estimated transport maintenance budget ($55,775) by about 58%, while the time required of the engineer might exceed that available. A simple linear programming TIMMS formulation is developed. One heuristic solution would be to implement a scheduled maintenance program on all transport infrastructure, and corrective pavement maintenance on one major collector street. These two programs would consume the entire $55,775 budget. The budget shortfall may be indicative of a general lack of adequate funding for infrastructure maintenance in the United States. The time shortfall indicates a need for additional manpower. Further study is needed to determine how best to prioritize maintenance actions, optimize maintenance resources, and identify supplemental funding sources.

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• Authors:
  • Cottrell, Wayne D
  • Bryan, Stephen
  • Chilukuri, Bhargava Rama
  • Kalyani, Vikram
  • Stevanovic, Aleksandar
  • Wu, Junxia
• Publication Date: 2009-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 120-132
• Serial:
  • Journal of Infrastructure Systems
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1076-0342
  • EISSN: 1943-555X
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jitse4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Budgeting; Case studies; Expenses; Financing; Maintenance management; Optimization; Pavements; Preventive maintenance; Strategic planning; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation infrastructure
• Geographic Terms: Uintah (Utah)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01131442
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 2009 8:32AM