Maintenance techniques to reduce social and environmental impacts

Selection of maintenance techniques is always a balance between the administering authority costs and social and environmental costs and outcomes. This project provides practical information and a methodology (including a worked example) for considering the balance between these costs. Characteristics of the problem include: 1. a need to consider a broad range of beneficial outcomes including social, economic and environmental outcome areas in decision making in the context of constrained budgets; 2. a need to consider a broad range of costs including environmental/social costs (delays, noise, air, water, land) and the administering authority costs. This report is intended to assist road managers and maintenance personnel in three ways: 1. to raise awareness that road maintenance can lead to social and environmental impacts; 2. to emphasise that social and environmental values (in addition to engineering, technical and economic factors) may also drive the development of maintenance programs; 3. to illustrate how the selection of maintenance techniques and operational approaches can both reduce the risk of adverse social and environmental impacts and enhance social and environmental values.(a) Austroads Project AT1044

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• Corporate Authors:

  Austroads

  Suite 2, Level 9, 287 Elizabeth Street
  Sydney, New South Wales  Australia  2000
• Authors:
  • HOUGHTON, N
  • MCROBERT, J
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 70P
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: AP-R291/06

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Costs; Districts and authorities; Economics; Environment; Maintenance; Management; Methodology; Roads; Transportation departments
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 255: Economics; 2455: Environment; 2755: Highway; 3847: Maintenance; 9102: Method; 253: Transport authority
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Energy; Environment; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01043194
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 1921139404
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 6 2007 8:28AM