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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Highway Maintenance"”.
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A Study on Road Users' Overall Perceptions of Highway Maintenance Service Quality and the Variables that Define the Highway Maintenance Service Quality Domain
… solutions was built in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the legislation that authorized the construction of the Interstate Highway System. Better plans, transparent process, and public support are some of the benefits that road managers can obtain by educating and involving the …
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An approach for integrating highway maintenance into the design process.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Measuring the Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Operations: Environmental and Dynamic Considerations
… for improving efficiency and effectiveness of highway maintenance practices that preserve the road infrastructure so as to better support society's needs. Effectiveness and efficiency are relative terms in which the performance of a production unit or decision making unit (DMU) is compared with …
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A study of rural highway maintenance expenditures in Virginia: forecasting and policy testing
… study is to determine the financial adequacy for highway maintenance in Virginia during the period from the year 1981 to 1990. Future highway maintenance expenses were projected using regression analysis and hypothesized to be a function of travel. The forecasts of maintenance expenditures were …
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A framework for determining the impact of deferred maintenance and/or obsolescence of a highway system
… framework to account for the impact of deferred highway maintenance and/or construction on user and non-user benefits. This will aid the decision-making process and help guide the effective use of scarce financial resources. The framework proposes the concept of a Comprehensive Level of Service …
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Three essays in public finance
… Chapter 1 is titled “Do State Governments Defer Highway Maintenance Expenditures?”. Deferring maintenance expenditures in fiscal downturns can be more costly than accumulating debt or cutting pension contributions. I take advantage of the formulary distribution of Federal highway grants to …
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Discrete Event Simulation Model for Project Selection Level Pavement Maintenance Policy Analysis
… and effect. Better investment decisions for maintenance will increase the condition of the flexible pavement and will end up with a better level of service. Therefore, better investments decisions on pavement maintenance will increase the economic growth and global competition for the area. …
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Outsourcing transportation infrastructure maintenance : a theoretical approach with application to JR East
In transportation agencies, how to reduce maintenance and operation cost is one of the biggest and most common concerns, because their revenue is not expected to increase drastically in the future. One of the solutions undertaken nowadays is contracting out and utilizing contractors' efficiency for …
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Optimized scheduling of highway work zones
Highway maintenance activities usually require lane closures and disrupt traffic operations. Because of budget constraints, project deadlines, and the resulting traffic impact, the objective of this dissertation is to improve the efficiencies of traffic operation and maintenance work, and minimize …
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Comparative Analysis of Current Performance-Based Maintenance Methods to Improve Virginia Highways
… phase-one involved a mini-scan study of the highway maintenance industry to identify the current state-of-practice in performance-based maintenance contracting (PBMC). Phase one gathered information on domestic and foreign agencies currently using performance-based maintenance on highways. …
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Risk and reliability-based maintenance for highway infrastructure asset management
The highway industry, a critical section of Nigeria surface transportation industry is in pressing need of methods that would enable the reliability and maintainability of their fielded system. The availability and safety of highway infrastructure is a primary objective of an economy in other to …
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Development of New Network-Level Optimization Model for Salem District Pavement Maintenance Programming
… quite interested in the overall quality of the highways and bridges throughout the US (Miller, 2007). Transportation networks are essential parts of the Nation's infrastructure systems. Deterioration due to age and use is the main threat to the level of service observed in surface transportation …
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Development of Performance Warranties for Performance Based Road Maintenance Contracts
… (by issuing memorandums to be distributed to the Highway Agencies and State Departments of Transportation) the conversion of traditional contracts to performance based contracts to reach a goal of 80% of the service contracts and actions being performance based by the end of fiscal year 2004 …