Public Benefits of Highway System Preservation and Maintenance (2004) / Chapter Skim
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26 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS This synthesis report provides an assessment of the state of practice regarding the estimation and communication of the public benefits of highway maintenance. This assessment was derived from a literature review, a formal survey of highway agency practices, and discussions with professionals in several fields, and is summarized in the following conclusions.
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27 of maintenance are embedded in the pavement and bridge management software used by most state highway agencies, those management tools are used for the most part only as required by federal regulation. Consequently – Only one-third of these agencies reported the use of life-cycle costing or other benefit–cost methods to assess maintenance priorities; two-thirds of these agencies use such methods only for major projects.
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