IMPROVING ROAD QUALITY AND USER SATISFACTION WHILE LOWERING ROAD MAINTENANCE COSTS BY USING OPTI-GRADE
In order to identify sections that require the most maintenance, the use of FERIC's Opti-Grade grading-management system is shown to reduce grading costs by continually measuring the roughness of the road. Once identified, managers can concentrate maintenance efforts on those sections. At present, with thirty-four systems in service across Canada, users report savings in grading costs on the order of 25%. The paper also shows how Opti-Grade can be used by managers in determining the impact of the road's roughness on travel speeds in order to identify problem sections as candidates for rehabilitation. A calculation method for the justification of rehabilitation on economic grounds is provided.
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Corporate Authors:
ARRB
Melbourne, Victoria Australia -
Authors:
- Mercier, S
- Brown, M
- Provencher, Y
- DOUGLAS, R A
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Conference:
- Proceedings of the 21st ARRB and 11th REAAA Conference. Transport. Our Highway to a Sustainable Future
- Location: Cairns, Australia
- Date: 2003-5-18 to 2003-5-23
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 12 p.
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Serial:
- Publication of: ARRB Transport Research, Limited
- Publisher: ARRB
- ISSN: 0158-0728
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Computer programs; Cost control; Grading (Earthwork); Maintenance; Maintenance management; Quality control; Roads; Roughness; Software packages
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00964334
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 087659229X
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Oct 9 2003 12:00AM