International Journal of Advanced Innovative Technology in Engineering (IJAITE)

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Study on Highways and Their Maintenance

Dr. Sachin S. Saraf, Kajal Suresh Chaudhari, Prof. Ashish R. Bijwe

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The maintenance of roads involves the coordination of a wide range of seemingly unrelated activities. In practice to achieve a good standard of effective maintenance it is essential that different aspects of the work should integrate smoothly. The task facing the Engineer in Road Maintenance is to maintain a network of roads within available budgets. This is made difficult by the amounts of roads which are built to inadequate standards and the increase in both the volumes of traffic and in the axle loadings combined with decreasing budgets and the expectation of further cuts in public expenditure. This is noticeable both in rural areas where the intensification and diversification of agricultural production have resulted in minor roads of minimal pavement construction having to accommodate relatively large volumes of traffic and more particularly commercial vehicles which on occasion can barely fit onto the road and in urban areas where the growth of towns and cities has incorporated areas serviced by minor roads now carrying heavy volumes of traffic. Of these, the majority of National Primary and some national Secondary roads have been realigned to modern design standards.

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