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Assessment of Road Maintenance Management Practices of Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA
Road maintenance management (RMM) is a very important aspect for systematically and objectively determining pavement quality and programming of timely maintenance activities in response to adversely observed conditions. Road maintenance management is a significant challenge in many developing countries in the world. However, technology has been effectively used to solve some of these problems. RMM is a serious concern in Ethiopia because Lack of proper maintenance leads to higher vehicle operating costs, increase in travel time and number of accidents, and reduce reliability and level of service of transport system. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, suffers those problems due to lack of proper maintenance and management system. Despite various maintenance actions undertaken, the condition however, become worse due to poor maintenance practices. The aim of this research is to study the current road maintenance management practices in Addis Ababa, identify problems/shortcomings that are currently faced and develop a computerized road maintenance management system that will improve the current maintenance challenges. Questionnaire was used to elicit data on the current road maintenance management practices in Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA) and on the challenges faced during maintenance and management practices. To develop a computerized road maintenance Management system, Microsoft Sequence Query Language 2014 (MS SQL 2014) server were used to develop a database and the interface design was developed using Visual Studio 2013. The results show that maintenance management process: road inventory and condition surveys not properly carried out, no maintenance prioritization criteria, and not appropriate planned. The major challenges faced during implementation of road maintenance management are: inadequate funding, scarce database and traditional data collection system through visual inspection and inadequate training of manpower. As a possible solutions to current weaknesses of road maintenance management system, a computerized road maintenance management system was developed which comprises of all stages of road maintenance cycle namely Road inventory, Road condition survey, Road prioritization and Road maintenance plan. Data were collected from four road section to validate the system and itshowed that the system effectively produce Road Inventory, Road Condition Survey, Road Prioritization and Road Maintenance plan reports. The developed computerized Road Maintenance Management system was found efficient in number of ways for example: It reduce the amount of paper work, saves time, use standard criteria and clear guideline for road maintenance prioritization, reduce the amount of man power required for maintenance management, it can be used as useful decision tool and increase the management efficiency. It is hoped that the development of this Road Maintenance Management System will assist highway agencies to the improvement of Road Maintenance Management system of
Assessment of Road Maintenance Management Practices of Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA
Road maintenance management (RMM) is a very important aspect for systematically and objectively determining pavement quality and programming of timely maintenance activities in response to adversely observed conditions. Road maintenance management is a significant challenge in many developing countries in the world. However, technology has been effectively used to solve some of these problems. RMM is a serious concern in Ethiopia because Lack of proper maintenance leads to higher vehicle operating costs, increase in travel time and number of accidents, and reduce reliability and level of service of transport system. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, suffers those problems due to lack of proper maintenance and management system. Despite various maintenance actions undertaken, the condition however, become worse due to poor maintenance practices. The aim of this research is to study the current road maintenance management practices in Addis Ababa, identify problems/shortcomings that are currently faced and develop a computerized road maintenance management system that will improve the current maintenance challenges. Questionnaire was used to elicit data on the current road maintenance management practices in Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA) and on the challenges faced during maintenance and management practices. To develop a computerized road maintenance Management system, Microsoft Sequence Query Language 2014 (MS SQL 2014) server were used to develop a database and the interface design was developed using Visual Studio 2013. The results show that maintenance management process: road inventory and condition surveys not properly carried out, no maintenance prioritization criteria, and not appropriate planned. The major challenges faced during implementation of road maintenance management are: inadequate funding, scarce database and traditional data collection system through visual inspection and inadequate training of manpower. As a possible solutions to current weaknesses of road maintenance management system, a computerized road maintenance management system was developed which comprises of all stages of road maintenance cycle namely Road inventory, Road condition survey, Road prioritization and Road maintenance plan. Data were collected from four road section to validate the system and itshowed that the system effectively produce Road Inventory, Road Condition Survey, Road Prioritization and Road Maintenance plan reports. The developed computerized Road Maintenance Management system was found efficient in number of ways for example: It reduce the amount of paper work, saves time, use standard criteria and clear guideline for road maintenance prioritization, reduce the amount of man power required for maintenance management, it can be used as useful decision tool and increase the management efficiency. It is hoped that the development of this Road Maintenance Management System will assist highway agencies to the improvement of Road Maintenance Management system of
Assessment of Road Maintenance Management Practices of Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA
Daniel Agidew (author) / Alemayehu Ambo (PhD) (author)
2017-01-01
doi:10.20372/nadre:1550930715.4
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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