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Over the course of the last several decades contract maintenance has become a significant tool that is utilized to some degree by most state agencies in the United States. Until the early 1970s, highway maintenance was largely planned and executed by public highway agencies. Then, a handful of highway agencies began to pilot the contracting of maintenance activities using private rather than public sector resources. During the next 25 years a significant amount of maintenance activities began to be outsourced in this manner. The purpose of this paper is to document some of the more significant trends and projects which have occurred during the "evolution of outsourcing" within the highway maintenance community. It is hoped that by documenting a composite of some of the various strategies tried by governmental agencies that the reader can determine which of the methods may be applicable for the circumstances with their agency.

Session H

English

11p

2000

Ninth AASHTO/TRB Maintenance Management Conference

Case studies; Contracting out; Highway maintenance; State departments of transportation

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I60: Maintenance

TRIS, TRB

Jul 19 2000 12:00AM

• EMPOWERING EMPLOYEES AND THE ORGANIZATION BY IMPLEMENTING AND EVOLVING A MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - THREE YEARS IN
• EXPERIENCES IN IMPLEMENTING NEW MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• IMPROVEMENTS IN HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT IN GREECE
• TOTAL MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS