ROAD MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT - CONCEPTS AND SYSTEMS

The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date description of road maintenance management. This is a field of rapidly growing importance, and one in which many engineers, and managers from other backgrounds, are increasingly becoming involved. The book has been developed based on the experience of project work in this field in a number of countries, and from a series of short courses run for road practitioners at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and at the Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm in Sweden. The book is designed as a basic text for short courses aimed at engineers and managers working in road administrations who have the responsibility for managing maintenance of the existing road network and for implementing road management systems. The chapters of this book can be considered to fall into three groups. Chapters 1 to 3 deal with fundamental policy aspects of maintenance management, institutions and finance. They cover subjects that will be of primary concern at the national level, where matters of policy, objectives and standards are normally decided. Chapters 4 to 7 are mainly concerned with planning and programming, which are considered from the perspective of the costs and benefits of investing in maintenance, data, treatment selection and prioritisation. These chapters should be of most interest to those tiers of the organisation whose staff are sub-sector budget holders, possibly at regional level. The remainder of the book focuses on preparation and operational issues of day-to-day management of roads and the procurement of works. This book is a reference textbook for the Overseas Road Note entitled Guidelines of design and operation of road management systems, which has been prepared by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). (A)

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  MACMILLAN PRESS LIMITED

  HOUNDMILLS
  BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE  United Kingdom  RG21 6XS
• Authors:
  • Robinson, R
  • DANIELSON, U
  • Snaith, M
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 291 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highways; Maintenance; Planning
• ITRD Terms: 2755: Highway; 3847: Maintenance; 143: Planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00754275
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-333-72155-1
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 27 1998 12:00AM