TOWARDS A RATIONAL APPROACH TO ROAD MAINTENANCE

Road maintenance accounts for a growing portion of highway budget. Throughout the world, efforts have been made to rationalize these expenditures. The paper discusses some of these efforts as well as their results. Three complementary aspects of the efforts described in some detail are: improved knowledge of the roadway condition, with stricter specification of the data collection methods; development of an evaluation tool in order to determine a long-term maintenance policy based on objective assessment of maintenance needs; and, development of the maintenance scheduling tool for implementing that policy in the short and medium term.

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• Corporate Authors:

  International Road Federation

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• Authors:
  • Lavaud, J P
  • Lepert, P H
  • Goux, M T
  • Robert, B
• Conference:
  • XIIIth World meeting of the International Road Federation
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Date: 1997-6-16 to 1997-6-20
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Highway maintenance; Highways; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00751090
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 1 1998 12:00AM