An AHP-based approach to prioritizing resources for highway routine maintenance.

Details

• Creators:
  Gonzalez, Epigmenio ; Liu, Jin ; Liu, Wenxing ; Zhang, Zhanmin ; Murphy, Michael R. ; O'Connor, James T. ; Bhat, Chandra
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Budgeting Decision Making Highway Maintenance Maintenance Management Resource Allocation Risk Management
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-13/0-0-6623-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Abstract:
  The Texas Department of Transportation has been experiencing maintenance budget fluctuations recently. The
  
  budget shortage has a negative impact on the agency’s maintenance strategies and results in the undesirable
  
  deterioration of highway conditions, increasing the risk for both road users and the agency. This project aims to
  
  develop a methodology to minimize the impact of budget fluctuation by quantifying the risk of not performing a
  
  maintenance activity and identifying the priority of maintenance activities based on the quantified risk.
  
  With the help of maintenance experts from TxDOT, 4 maintenance objectives and 16 maintenance function
  
  groups were identified and a hierarchy structure was developed based on the objectives and function groups. Four
  
  pilot districts were selected to represent the different demographic and climatic regions in Texas and maintenance
  
  experts were selected from the four districts to participate in the workshop. The overall relative weights of the 16
  
  maintenance function groups were determined based on the individual evaluator’s judgments using the Analytical
  
  Hierarchy Process. To determine whether the 4 pilot districts varied in assigning relative importance to the 4
  
  defined objectives and priority to the 16 maintenance groups, statistical analyses were conducted with the 4 sets of
  
  values, 1 for each of the 4 pilot districts, using Kruskal-Wallis test.
  
  Lastly, a web-based prototype system was developed to assist users in generating the list of maintenance
  
  projects under budget constraints. Exposure factors, ADT, and truck volume were applied in the system to factor in
  
  the impact of traffic on the maintenance strategy. Users of this system can choose to use the weights and parameter
  
  values from the pilot district that they think is most comparable to their own district, or use the state average values
  
  that have proved to be applicable to all the districts in Texas.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-6623
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26456/dot_26456_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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