The challenges faced by Tanzania`s Road Organization in running Maintenance Management System and Pavement Management System effectively

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Richard R Mwaipungu ◽  
Dhiren Allopi
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Pavement Management System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Gravel Roads ◽  
Loss Prediction ◽  
Gravel Road

Running or developing the local MMS or PMS, be it for unsealed or sealed pavements, needs a team of well-trained and experienced road organization staff and appropriate equipment. The data employed to run a gravel roads MMS should reflect the capacity of the road organization personnel to collect them. In this regard, the team should be of adequate size, education and experience. It is, therefore, essential for the benefit of road users, road organization, the environment, and the sustainability of gravel roads to establish the capacity of road organization personnel responsible for running gravel road maintenance management with the intention of meeting social, economic, and political demands.The need to establish the adequacy of Tanzania road organizations in running gravel road MMS and PMS was the reason for conducting the qualitative research aspect of this study. The survey also intended to find out which parameters are readily collected by the surveyed road organizations, so as to include them as variables in formulating a gravel loss prediction model.This paper presents analysis and discussion of the questionnaire responses. The study notes the challenges being faced by road organizations responsible for the maintenance management of gravel road network in Tanzania and attempts to map a way forward.

Using a Pavement Management System for Allocating Resources: Case Study of Hungary

1996 ◽  
Vol 1518 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Marianna Csicsely-Tarpay ◽  
Raimo Tapio ◽  
Antti Talvitie
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
Road User ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Pavement Management System ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
The Road ◽  
User Charges ◽  
Vantage Points

An integrated network- and project-level pavement management system is described, and its use for allocating resources to various road maintenance actions and distributing these resources to a country's different regions and subnetworks is reported. Particularly interesting is the nature of the budget constraint, which is discussed from three vantage points: disutility of additional road user charges, performance of the road administration, and uncertainty in user benefits. The case study is set in Hungary, where significant efforts have been made to apply state-of-the-art techniques in road management. Contributions are made in three areas: a systematic, top-down managerial analysis of several budget levels and their effect on users and road condition; illustration of practical considerations in resource allocation by road managers; and the use of budget constraints to help achieve multiple highway management objectives, including productivity improvements in the road administration.

Practice Analysis of Urban Road Pavement Roughness and Detect of Destruction

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 3688-3691
Author(s):  
Jr Hung Peng ◽  
Po Hsun Sung ◽  
Jyh Dong Lin ◽  
Kuang Yi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Pavement Roughness ◽  
New Construction

The urban road becoming more perfect, pavement engineering is from new construction to maintenance management. The authorities, from acceptance the new construction turn into survey of the road‘s situation and control of various types of damage and road conditions on time, to maintain a good condition of the road. In this study we use the CCD with the general Global Positioning System to provide GPS coordinates and have a street shooting for each 20m of road, record of the CCD road imaging system, and with GPS coordinates, the street pavement shooting can identify the highest frequency distress type within 100m of the road, and compare with the value of IRI for statistics, considering different distress conditions associated with the International Roughness Index, and to explore the causes. This study has an Urban Road Management System, it divided into road flat index query and pavement condition index query, and user can use this system know the pavement condition every section. The road maintenance unit can be judged by this indicator status of pavement roughness to develop a conservation strategy of each section, reflecting the degree of conservation of each section, making the pavement to maintain a good quality. Urban road maintenance management system is for the each authorities built the road pavement maintenance management system for pavement managers with different levels of management authority, and to assist in the system can provide information for urban roads to do planning, query and management, it is beneficial to the authorities to implementation of urban roads and other road maintenance operations, they can immediately understand the pavement condition.

scholarly journals An Empirical Assessment of the Success of Road Asset Management System in Tanzania and Its Economic Value in Managing and Planning for Roads Pavement

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 7519-7536
Author(s):  
Vitalis Agati Ndume ◽  
Majige Selemani ◽  
Jesuk Ko
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
National Goal ◽  
The Road ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
System Usability Scale

The deployment of Information Communication Technology in the Road sector has contributed positively towards achieving the national goal of ICT for infrastructure development. However, the deployment of ICT software for Road infrastructure in underdeveloped countries has been done with duplication of efforts contributing to software failure. This study aimed in evaluating the effectiveness and economic values of the Road Maintenance Management System in Tanzania.  The study deployed System Usability Scale Framework in 26 regions of Tanzania, and Kruskal-Wallis test was used for significance testing. The result indicates positive response of adopting and scaling the Road Maintenance Management System to all 26 regions in the country with R2=0.863. The usability of the system remains steady for almost three years from 2017 to 2019. The economic value of system is found to be above average (61%), while the value for money is found to reach 76.5% of the expectation. It is therefore concluded that the use of ICT in planning for Roads Maintenance increases efficiency in delivery critical factors that facilitated decision making in road planning and also improves specific services delivery in government efficiency.

A Study to Develop Critical Success Factors of Roads Maintenance Management System for Sustainable Facility Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Insannul Kamil ◽  
Buang Alias ◽  
Abdul Hakim Mohammed ◽  
Chitrakala Muthuveerappan ◽  
Mego Plamonia
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Road ◽  
Using Data

The issues of sustainability in road maintenance management have been widely discussed in recent years. In some countries the maintenance of roads were based on selected indicators or commonly known as key performance indicators. In some countries such as Indonesia the allocation of budget and road maintenance planning were based on the age of these roads. The budget for and the planning of roads based on age have resulted in poor road conditions in Indonesia. The main objective of this study is to develop a sustainable road maintenance and management model (SRMM model) for the city of Padang, West Sumatrea that are in consonant with the vision, mission and goals of road authority towards meeting sustainable road maintenance management program. Using data obtained from selected roads in that city, after reviews of literature to identify key factors that contributed to the sustainable maintenance and management of roads, an opinion survey was conducted. Eleven experts in the field of road infrastructure and facilities management were selected as respondents. These experts were asked to identify the key factors that contributed to the quality of road maintenance management. Using the cut-off point approach, ten KPIs listed from the reviews are connected with the vision, mission and goals of the Directorate General of Highways, Ministry of Public Works Republic of Indonesia as the road authority. Respondents were asked to provide an assessment of the criticality level of the KPIs to the vision, mission and goals. Based on the calculation results, ten CSFs were identified to develop the (SRMM) model. The use of SRMM model based on statistically selected CSFs by the road authority is anticipated to help develop a reliable and sustainable road maintenance management system in Padang.

scholarly journals Rating and Condition Assessment of Urban Roads Based on Functional Distresses

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3230-3232
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Flexible Pavements ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Condition Assessment ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Pavement Management System ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
Road Section ◽  
Pavement Condition Assessment

The pavement management system deals with a pavement condition assessment. Rating of pavement can be done on the pavement condition assessment. Structural and functional distress is responsible for the failure of pavements. In this work, significant functional distresses which occur in flexible pavements are considered for the rating and assessment of road sections. The functional distress considered are Raveling, Potholes, Shoving, Patching, Depression, and Rutting as these are common and frequently occurred in the flexible pavements. The study of these distresses is done by authors. The measurement of distresses is done as per guideline given by the Indian Road Congress 1982 is used. For the condition, assessment guideline provided in Maintenance Management of Primary, Secondary, and Urban Roads, IRC, 2004, is used. Total five road section in the Pune region is considered for the study. All are flexible pavements. As Per assessment, it is observed that out of five segments, segment I and II are in fair to good condition, segment III is in very good condition. Segment IV and V are in very good and good condition, respectively.

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