Optimal Maintenance Crew Composition and Enhancement of Crew Productivity

Details

• Creators:
  Schober, Robert W. ; Brandenburg, Stefanie G. ; Bell, Lansford C.
• Corporate Creators:
  Clemson University. Department of Civil Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  South Carolina. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Employees Highway Maintenance Labor Productivity Maintenance Productivity
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SCDOT Research Project 668
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  South Carolina
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Clemson University. Dept. of Civil Engineering
• Abstract:
  The South Carolina Department of Transportation dedicates a large portion of both
  
  its budget and other resources to the maintenance of the State’s transportation
  
  infrastructure. In order to maximize the efficiency and productivity of the State’s highway
  
  maintenance workforce, the SCDOT partnered with Clemson University to research the
  
  performance of these maintenance crews. The goal of the research is to begin to identify
  
  optimal crew compositions, if possible, and to enhance crew productivity.
  
  Data was collected from the SCDOT Highway Maintenance Management System
  
  (HMMS) and crew rankings were developed based on several pre-determined performance
  
  criteria. These rankings were then used to identify the top performing crews based on work
  
  description and county type. Once crew rankings were identified, the top crews were
  
  analyzed to determine the crew configurations for each activity that produced the optimum
  
  results. Optimal equipment utilization was also analyzed and improved equipment
  
  allocation specifications were developed. A detailed survey of the SCDOT maintenance
  
  workforce was conducted at six county maintenance offices to supplement the HMMS data
  
  and further generate descriptors and characteristics of the top performing crews. The
  
  counties for this survey were chosen to be representative of the different areas throughout
  
  the state of South Carolina- primarily urban counties, mixed urban and rural counties, and
  
  primarily rural counties. Both maintenance workers and maintenance engineers
  
  participated in the survey with a total of 382 surveys collected. The data collected from
  
  these surveys included demographic information on each worker, information about crews,
  
  and opinion data relating to maintenance performance standards and the worker’s
  
  understanding of those standards.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:eb9868edf94b8d37a1406e5564e04371668e1848418030e1c3c40d8f5c67ea0e
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