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Title:

SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE SIMULATION MODEL

Accession Number:

00310745

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309029805

Abstract:

The number of interactions involved in the operation of the common industrial or governmental organization of today makes effective management very difficult, especially when the system is constantly changing. One effective method of examining the various aspects of such a system is by means of simulation. This paper reports research required to perform the initial phase and several follow-up stages in the development of a highway maintenance simulation model. This model is expected to provide management personnel in a state highway maintenance program with the opportunity to consider realistic alternatives and to analyze results of various possible actions before physical changes or irrevocable policy decisions are made. The model uses information such as work activties, labor power, equipment, materials, work-crew alternatives, road network consideration, weather characteristics, and scheduling alternatives. The model should give administrative personnel a means of considering a wide variety to typical highway maintenance dilemmas. Situations that only experience and rule-of-thumb reasoning explained in the past can thus be examined through the eyes of statistical indicators. (Author)

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Maintenance and Operations Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411556

Authors:

Pruett, James M
Ozerdem, Ertan

Pagination:

pp 38-44

Publication Date:

1979

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 727
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309029805

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (9)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Research and development

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Research

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Aug 5 1980 12:00AM

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