Project
PAV-ECO - Pavement Maintenance
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport infrastructure (INF)
Transport mode:
Road
Duration:
Start date: 01/10/1997,
End date: 01/10/1999
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The single highest cost in road management is the cost associated with
road pavement maintenance. For this reason, most EU countries are
currently developing road pavement maintenance management systems to
minimise the associated costs. Such systems must include performance
models for forecasting road pavement conditions and social and financial
costs.
Objectives:
The objectives of the project are to establish financial and economic models for the evaluation based on life cycle costs, for:
- optional application of different maintenance measures;
- impact of changed traffic flow on maintenance need;
- allocation of funds for different components of the road infrastructure;
- social economic effects from maintenance of the infrastructure;
- vehicle operating costs appropriate to European conditions.
Methodology:
The project will involve:
- development of an analysis system for the economic evaluation of alternative road pavement maintenance and rehabilitation strategies on individual road projects;
- preparing a description of the linkage between forecast changes in the traffic flow on road network and the analysis of maintenance management activities;
- providing social economic evaluation models for inclusion in maintenance management procedures;
- development of models for the society rate of return on maintenance investments;
- development of models for the interaction of budgets for the maintenance of public roads, private roads and bridges.
- consideration of criteria for the regional distribution of the budget;
- identifying further work necessary to modify the vehicle operating cost model, to increase the suitability for use throughout Europe.
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