Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance.

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• Creators:
  Jaipuria, Sunny ; Zhang, Zhanmin
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway operations
  • Highway design
  • Highway engineering
  • Highway maintenance
  • Highway planning
  • Infrastructure
  • Costs
  • Highway operations
  • Highway design
  • Highway engineering
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/11/169208-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Although it is widely accepted that establishing suitable performance goal is critical for system ; maintenance and preservation, a framework that considers the inter-relationship between conflicting ; objectives of minimum maintenance and rehabilitation costs, deferred maintenance costs, and vehicle ; operating costs to the users does not exist. This report proposes a methodological framework that is aimed ; at assisting highway agencies with the problem of objectively analyzing policy decisions in terms of the ; performance goals for their highway networks that would minimize the total transport costs to the society. ; In a case study of the proposed framework, the highway network managed by the Texas Department of ; Transportation was examined for different performance goals. The results from the case study indicate that ; setting lower performance goals lead to savings in the M&R needs, but at the same time, they also ; significantly increase the exogenous costs such as deferred maintenance costs and the vehicle operating ; costs.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  10727
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23111/dot_23111_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 366.12 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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