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Investigating the road maintenance performance in developing countries [journal paper]

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posted on 2016-05-11, 14:01 authored by Jamaa Salih, Francis Edum-Fotwe, Andrew Price
One of the most critical aspects of the management of road infrastructure is the type and scale of maintenance systems adopted and the consequences of their inadequacy. The performance of road maintenance systems can be assessed by a number of important indicators such as: cost, safety, environmental impact, and level of complaints by users. A review of practice reveals that insufficient level of expenditure or poor management of the road network often has serious consequences for the economic and social life of a country in terms of vehicle operating costs (VOC), travel time costs, accident costs and environmental impact. Despite an increase in the attention paid by global road agencies to the environmental and the road users’ satisfaction, the overwhelming evidence from the available literature agree on the lack of similar levels of attention for the two factors in many developing countries. While many sources agree that the road maintenance backlog is caused by either the shortage of expenditures or lack of proper management or both, it appears that managing the available assets particularly in the developing countries is the main issue. To address this subject, this paper will concentrate on exposing the various issues related to this field.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering

Volume

10

Issue

4

Pages

395 - 399 (5)

Citation

SALIH, J., EDUM-FOTWE, F. and PRICE, A., 2016. Investigating the road maintenance performance in developing countries. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering, 10 (4), pp. 395 - 399.

Publisher

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-03-08

Publication date

2016

Notes

This paper was accepted for the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Construction and Management, Dubai, 8-9 April 2016 and subsequently published in the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering.

ISSN

2010-376X

Language

  • en