LOCAL ROAD SURFACING CRITERIA: AUTOMATED SOFTWARE USER'S GUIDE

On a daily basis, local road agencies in South Dakota face the challenge of how to cost-effectively maintain low-volume roads. Specifically, decision makers are faced with the challenge of determining when it is most economical to maintain, upgrade, or downgrade a road's existing surface. In order to assist decision makers with these types of decisions, the South Dakota Department of Transportation initiated a research study in 2002 to investigate surfacing criteria for low-volume roads. This report describes the software tool and user's guide developed as part of this project. The software tool allows the user to analyze economic and non-economic factors, such as political factors, housing concentration, and industry/truck traffic, at specific locations to determine the appropriate surface type. The user's guide is a hands-on guide that introduces the macro-driven Microsoft Excel-based analytical tool that was developed to apply the low-volume road management methodologies recommended in the final report.

• Record URL:
  http://www.sddot.com/business/research/projects/docs/SD200210_Users_Guide.pdf
• Record URL:
  http://www.sddot.com/business/research/projects/docs/SD_LowVolumeSurface.xls
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also final report SD2002-10-F and technical brief SD2002-10-TB. A spreadsheet analytical tool for applying low-volume road management is also available from the sponsoring agency: http://www.sddot.com/business/research/projects/docs/SD_LowVolumeSurface.xls
• Corporate Authors:

  Applied Pavement Technology, Incorporated

  3001 Research Road, Suite C
  Champaign, IL  United States  61822

  South Dakota Department of Transportation

  700 East Broadway Avenue
  Pierre, SD  United States  57501

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Zimmerman, K A
  • Wolters, A S
• Publication Date: 2004-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 38 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer program documentation; Cost effectiveness; Decision making; Economic factors; Life cycle costing; Low volume roads; Maintenance; Political factors; Software; Truck traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Housing density
• Geographic Terms: South Dakota
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987653
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SD2002-10-UG
• Contract Numbers: 310803
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 8 2005 12:00AM