Abstract
The roads as main national assets maintenance costs increase dramatically but budgets stays as it is or even decrease over the years. However, at the same time, it is required to maintain road pavements condition at high level. These trends make asset owners and administrators to search for new ways and methods for more efficient roads maintenance management. As the new road is build or old one reconstructed performance indicators should be identified for whole life cycle as it is defined by design. Pavement condition evaluation by indicating present performance indicators level should be done timely and accurate at road level and whole network level. Ongoing support of pavement condition under network level, with a long-term strategy, allows to prolong the life of the pavement, improve traffic safety and meet public expectations. The comprehensive analysis of road maintenance and management systems recommendations for their improvement and application are presented in the article.
Highlights
Mobility and safe transport is one of the most important modern human and society’s needs
By World Bank initiative, the study, carried out in the South African Road Agency SANRAL in 2004, showed that costs increase by 6 times without the necessary road maintenance and repair in 3 years than the funds that would be given
To summarize the state of the road network management and maintenance practices in different countries, it may be noted that systems, models and procedures differ for its complexity of the specific applications by the country
Summary
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2016, 11(3): 242–249 same, because the economy is influenced by inflation and a few years later the same money, invested in road maintenance, is insufficient. Many countries in the road transport sector are facing a difficult situation, when road maintenance and repair budgets are reduced every year (or at least not increased, though property maintenance costs are rising), but at the same time it is required to maintain at least equivalent to the current road condition and, in some cases, even better
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