00680819

Component

http://onlinepubs.trb.org...TRCircular/446/446-006.pdf

Belgium has a population of ten million inhabitants and an area of 30,000 sq km. Its secondary road network consists of 115,000 km of public roads. Less than 5% are unpaved, and about 26,000 km are made up of cement concrete. If one adds to it the state network which is just over 14,000 km, one obtains the highest world road density of 4.2 km per sq km of territory. This network performs the following functions: Local access to grounds and housings, residential quarters, agricultural lands, industrial zones (connecting roads); Collecting local traffic in order to feed it to the primary road network (collecting roads); and Linking villages together and also with principal administrative, industrial, and commercial centers (transit roads). These roads have been progressively deteriorating owing to a lack of appropriate maintenance. This paper discusses the implementation of a management system, called GERSEC, for these secondary roads. GERSEC integrates technical approaches and economical evaluations with a view to optimize the distribution of the available funds at the network level. Also discussed is an alternative system being evaluated to limit the assessment of road condition only to visual inspection. This management system will most suitably be applied to the lower traffic level roads and is thought to be a less expensive data collection process.

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00680813

English

p. 19-20

1995-5

Transportation Research Circular

Digital/other

Deterioration; Highway maintenance; Inspection; Low volume roads; Maintenance management; Pavement management systems; Secondary roads; Vision

Road conditions

Belgium

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I60: Maintenance

TRIS, TRB

Jun 16 1995 12:00AM

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