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Comprehensive pavement maintenance strategies for road networks through optimal allocation of resources

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  • Partha Chakroborty
  • Pradeep Kumar Agarwal
  • Animesh Das

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In order to maintain a growing road infrastructure at some minimum level of service, substantial resources are required on a recurrent basis. Of late, the available resources can no longer meet all the maintenance and rehabilitation demand even in wealthy nations. Hence, there is a need to develop a tool which will optimally allocate these resources in order to keep the road infrastructure as ‘healthy’ as possible. Further, this tool must acknowledge that maintenance needs are not only restricted to structural aspects but also extend to the functional- and safety-related aspects of a road. Here, such a comprehensive optimization tool is developed which when used will optimally allocate resources in order to maintain a healthy (from structural, functional, and safety standpoints) road network. The problem of determining the optimum maintenance and rehabilitation activities for individual road sections is formulated as a linear integer programming problem. Results from a case study using the proposed method show that the suggested maintenance and rehabilitation plans make sense from engineering and economic considerations.

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  • Partha Chakroborty & Pradeep Kumar Agarwal & Animesh Das, 2011. "Comprehensive pavement maintenance strategies for road networks through optimal allocation of resources," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(3), pages 317-339, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:35:y:2011:i:3:p:317-339
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2012.671044
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