IMPLEMENTING HIGHWAY PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE: COMPARING CHALLENGES, PROCESSES, AND SOLUTIONS IN THREE STATES

One of the central challenges facing today's state transportation policymakers is how to incorporate preventive maintenance concepts and strategies into existing asset-management systems. Seven unique challenges to implementing preventive maintenance are identified in the literature and elsewhere, and a discussion covers the ways states have addressed those challenges through various implementation strategies. Then, case studies provide examples of how that incorporation has occurred in the departments of transportation in Michigan, Kansas, and Nebraska. The three case studies are presented in an effort to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of these three unique approaches, herein labeled the top-down approach, for Michigan; the bottom-up approach, for Kansas; and the inclusive approach, for Nebraska. In particular, an examination is presented of how preventive maintenance concepts were integrated into the planning, budgeting, and technical needs-assessment for state highways.

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  https://doi.org/10.3141/1877-02
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1877, Maintenance Management and Services.
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• Authors:
  • Carroll, D A
  • Cheng, R
  • Eger III, R J
  • Grusczynski, L
  • Marlowe, J
  • Titi, H H
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 10-16
• Monograph Title: MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1877
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Budgeting; Case studies; Highway maintenance; Implementation; Maintenance management; Needs assessment; Planning; Preventive maintenance; State highways; Strategic planning
• Geographic Terms: Kansas; Michigan; Nebraska
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00983266
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309094739
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 9 2004 12:00AM