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17 CHAPTER THREE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF MAINTENANCE BENEFITS Although responsible officials and researchers argue that highway maintenance yields significant public benefits, funding for maintenance, compared with funding for construction of new roads, has been problematic in the United States at least since the close of the Revolutionary War (History of Public Works .
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18 Anecdotal evidence suggests how maintenance and service-level characteristics influence road users' opinions. For example, Overdrive, a magazine serving the long-haul trucking community, conducts an annual survey of the "best and worst roads." Factors considered in their survey include truckers' opinions about potholes, cracking and patching, traffic and congestion, and construction.
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19 acceptable by the estimators (including considerations of shoulder, guardrail, and drainage conditions as well as pavement roughness) were found to be significantly related to motorists' ratings.
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20 Maintenance and repair was the most frequently cited means for improving transportation (Hernandez 1997)
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21 sions is widely espoused. Many agencies have used surveys or other market research techniques to assess public opinions of their highways and maintenance operations.
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