Title: LOCAL ROAD SURFACING CRITERIA: TECHNICAL BRIEF
Abstract: This Technical Brief outlines a step-by-step process to assist counties in South Dakota in making road surface type decisions. The manual procedure allows the user to consider any combination of agency costs, user costs, and other non-economic factors, such as political factors, housing concentration, and industry/truck traffic, when determining the appropriate surface type for a given roadway section. The models used as the basis of this procedure are based upon the average construction and maintenance costs, treatment timings, crash costs, and vehicle operating costs submitted by counties in South Dakota during the data collection efforts of this study with some modifications by the Technical Panel. In addition to the manual procedures outlined in this document, a software tool has been developed that is also available for conducting the analysis. The software tool allows an agency to further customize the types of treatments and the costs that will be applied over the life of a road section. The basis for this manual procedure and the software tool are summarized in the Final Report.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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