Economic Evaluation of Long-Life Pavements [electronic resource]: Phase 1 /
European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2005.
With maintenance costs accounting for a large proportion of road budgets, this report assesses the economic and technical feasibility of innovative wearing courses for long life road pavements. While having higher initial costs, such wearing courses have the potential to dramatically reduce recurrent road maintenance requirements and user costs and could also reduce overall costs significantly, under circumstances outlined in the report.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Traditional Pavements for High-traffic Roads -- Introduction -- Executive Summary -- Next-generation Pavements for High-traffic Highways -- Economic Feasibility of Long-life Pavement Surfacing -- Evaluation Frameworks -- Summary and Conclusions -- Concept Development -- Annexes.
With maintenance costs accounting for a large proportion of road budgets, this report assesses the economic and technical feasibility of innovative wearing courses for long life road pavements. While having higher initial costs, such wearing courses have the potential to dramatically reduce recurrent road maintenance requirements and user costs and could also reduce overall costs significantly, under circumstances outlined in the report.
Roads
Pavements