MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY TRAINING THROUGH CASE STUDY APPROACH

A maintenance management case study approach has been developed for the International Road Federation executive conferences on road management, for senior professional engineers, and for administrators of highway agencies. A case is structured and presented as a continuing exercise that affords the conference delegates the opportunity to simulate planning, programming, budgeting, and scheduling of maintenance activities for a hypothetical network, through the practical application of real data. Delegates, working in regional groups, develop their cases, beginning with the definition of unique sets of environments that describe traffic flow, climate, roadway cross section, technology, and economic and financial characteristics. Presented with a roadway condition survey, each group then develops a first-year maintenance plan, program, and budget, imbedded in a 5-year projection designed to minimize the total cost of maintenance and vehicle operation. In the process, delegates deepen their understanding of the language and principles of road management and, at the end of the exercise, present and defend their budget requests before a simulated budget committee. Experience to date has shown that appropriately designed case studies can be effective instruments of technology transfer and training. By setting the maintenance management situation in environments defined by the delegates themselves and by providing a medium for the exchange of views and approaches to maintenance management problem-solving through group work, unique case studies can be developed that mirror reality closely and give delegates a feeling of confidence in an enhanced ability to effect meaningful change in their regions' maintenance management procedures.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1291, Fifth International Conference on Low-Volume Roads, May 19-23, 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, Volume 1. 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:
  • Parker, Neville A
  • Radwan, Essam
  • Latta, Merron L
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Low-Volume Roads, 5th, 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Publication Date: 1991

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 248-256
• Monograph Title: Fifth International Conference on Low-Volume Roads May 19-23 1991, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; volumes 1 and 2
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1291
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Budgeting; Case studies; Conferences; Low volume roads; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Minimization; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Planning; Problem solving; Technology transfer; Training
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00611766
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030905715
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1991 12:00AM