Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation
This article is about highway and transport engineering, this time we talk about the Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation
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When a highway construction project has been completed, accepted from the contractor, and final payment has been made to the contractor, a new facility is available for use by the traveling public. By the same token, a new responsibility is created to preserve the new investment and to serve and protect the interests of the traveling public. This is true not only for newly constructed highways but also for all highways of our system. Sudden failures, damage by storms, gradual deterioration, and unexpected obstructions can cause personal injury, death, or delay.
Highway maintenance is defined as the function of preserving, repairing, and restoring a highway and keeping it in condition for safe, convenient, and economical use. Maintenance includes both physical maintenance activities, such as patching, filling joints, mowing, and so forth and traffic service activities, including painting pavement markings, erecting snow fences, and removing snow, ice, and litter. It does not include major rehabilitation or reconstruction activities, such as widening the roadbed, or extensive resurfacing projects.
Highway maintenance programs are designed to offset the effects of weather, vandalism, vegetation growth, and traffic wear and damage, as well as deterioration due to the effects of aging, material failures, and design and construction faults.
Maintenance
- Traffic services
- Physical maintenance
Construction
- Betterment
- Construction and reconstruction
(source: Wright, P.H, with contributions by James S. Lai, Peter S.Parsonson, Michael Meyer., Highway Engineering, 6th edition ,John Wiley & Sons, Inc.New York, 1996.)
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When a highway construction project has been completed, accepted from the contractor, and final payment has been made to the contractor, a new facility is available for use by the traveling public. By the same token, a new responsibility is created to preserve the new investment and to serve and protect the interests of the traveling public. This is true not only for newly constructed highways but also for all highways of our system. Sudden failures, damage by storms, gradual deterioration, and unexpected obstructions can cause personal injury, death, or delay.
Highway maintenance is defined as the function of preserving, repairing, and restoring a highway and keeping it in condition for safe, convenient, and economical use. Maintenance includes both physical maintenance activities, such as patching, filling joints, mowing, and so forth and traffic service activities, including painting pavement markings, erecting snow fences, and removing snow, ice, and litter. It does not include major rehabilitation or reconstruction activities, such as widening the roadbed, or extensive resurfacing projects.
Highway maintenance programs are designed to offset the effects of weather, vandalism, vegetation growth, and traffic wear and damage, as well as deterioration due to the effects of aging, material failures, and design and construction faults.
Maintenance
- Traffic services
- Physical maintenance
Construction
- Betterment
- Construction and reconstruction
(source: Wright, P.H, with contributions by James S. Lai, Peter S.Parsonson, Michael Meyer., Highway Engineering, 6th edition ,John Wiley & Sons, Inc.New York, 1996.)
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