INCORPORATING QUALITY STANDARDS AND IMPACTS WITHIN HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

Assessments of future maintenance needs, levels of effort, and costs have traditionally been expressed through predictions of maintenance supply (generally in units like dollars or man hours per lane mile). Although this approach is adequate for many management needs, it does not enable one to explore systematically the effects of changes in maintenance policy on future costs and road performance. However, the increasingly important strategic role to be played by maintenance and rehabilitation, and higher costs of providing maintenance services, have recently focused attention on better management practices to define maintenance demands, establish priorities among maintenance activities, and relate alternative policies to future impacts on road service. This paper describes the development of demand-responsive concepts for maintenance planning and policy formulation, based upon work conducted in separate projects for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal Highway Administration. Analytical components of the demand-responsive approach include (1) numerical measures of maintenance levels of service, or quality standards; (2) quantitative model to predict the condition or deterioration of specific road features as a function of the relevant physical, environmental and traffic factors; and (3) quantitative models to assess the impacts of maintenance performance, as for example in the areas of preservation of investment, user consequences, and accident prediction. (Author)

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  • This paper appeared in Transportation Research Record No. 781, Maintaining the Maintenance Management System. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Markow, Michael J
• Conference:
  • Fourth Workshop on Maintaining the Maintenance Management System
  • Location: Hilton Head South Carolina, United States
  • Date: 1980-7-6 to 1980-7-8
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 18-26
• Monograph Title: Maintaining the Maintenance Management System
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 781
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver rehabilitation; Highway maintenance; Level of service; Maintenance management; Policy; Quality control; Standards; Strategic planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs; Quality; Rehabilitation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00334223
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309031117
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 16 1981 12:00AM