TOP HIGHWAY PROBLEMS: FINANCE AND MAINTENANCE

The nation's highway departments say their number one problem is inadequate funds. Congress and the Federal Highway Administration are worried that, due to inadequate highway budgets, the interstate and other highway systems will deteriorate unacceptably. This article describes (1) Causes of shrinking highway budgets; (2) maintenance status of the highways; (3) how a few states have succeeded (while many failed) in boosting their gasoline taxes; (4) the new "pavement management systems" that states are beginning to introduce, so that rehabilitation of older pavements is done before deterioration becomes so bad that the road must be ripped out and rebuilt, and (5) the Interstate Maintenance Guidelines that Congress mandated FHWA publish by this fall.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Godfrey Jr, K A
• Publication Date: 1979-11

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 59-67
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 49
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Driver rehabilitation; Finance; Financing; Gasoline; Guidelines; Highway operations; Highway planning; Highways; Maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavements; Roads; Taxation; Transportation; Transportation operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway administration; Rehabilitation
• Old TRIS Terms: Highway pavement; Highway systems; Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00310618
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 22 1980 12:00AM