Financing road transport infrastructure

In the UK, public expenditure on transport infrastructure is nearly £6 billion for the past few years. Over £500 million per year were spent on bridge assessment and strengthening and reducing the backlog of road requiring maintenance. A further £200 million a year will be spent on keeping the safe operation of the network and efficiently through day to day maintenance, lighting and signing . The Department of Transport is planning to extend private sector experience in road management and operation by introducing Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) This paper investigates the different ways of financing road transport infrastructure including road pricing, private finance in transport infrastructure, the role of the private sector, Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) schemes, the benefits and problems of such schemes. The paper considers planning gain as a means of financing transport infrastructure with examples of developers to fund link road building and improvements to the local planning system

Estimated lifetimes of road pavements in Sweden using time-to-event analysis

Maintenance planning of road pavement requires reliable estimates of roads’ lifetimes. In determining the lifetime of a road, this study combines maintenance activities and road condition measurements. The scope of the paper is to estimate lifetimes of road pavements in Sweden with time to event analysis. The model used includes effects of pavement type, road type, bearing capacity, road width, speed limit, stone size and climate zone, where the model is stratified according to traffic load. Among the nine analyzed pavement types, stone mastic had the longest expected lifetime, 32 percent longer than asphalt concrete. Among road types, ordinary roads with cable barriers had 30 percent shorter lifetime than ordinary roads. Increased speed lowered the lifetime, while increased stone size (up to 20 mm) and increased road width lengthened the lifetime. The results are of importance for life cycle cost analysis and road management.

Pavement and alignment design of a new rural road in the province of Bologna

This thesis aims to give a general view of pavement types all over the world, by showing the different characteristics of each one and its different life steps starting from construction, passing by maintenance and arriving until recycling phase. The flexible pavement took the main part of this work because it has been used in the last part of this thesis to design a project of a rural road. This project is located in the province of Bologna-Italy (‘Comune di Argelato’, 26 km in the north of Bologna), and has 5677, 81 m of length. A pavement design was made using the program BISAR 3.0 and a fatigue life study was made, also, in order to estimate the number of loads (in terms of heavy vehicles axle) to cause road’s failure . An alignment design was made for this project and a safety study was established in order to check if the available sight distance at curves respects the safety norms or not, by comparing it to the stopping sight distance. Different technical sheets are demonstrated and several cases are discussed in order to clarify the main design principles and underline the main hazardous cases to be avoided especially at intersection. This latter, its type’s choice depends on several factors in order to make the suitable design according to the environmental data. At this part of the road, the safety is a primordial point due to the high accident rate in this zone. For this reason, different safety aspects are discussed especially at roundabouts, signalized intersections, and also some other common intersection types. The design and the safety norms are taken with reference to AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials), ACT (Transportation Association of Canada), and also according to Italian norms (Decreto Ministeriale delle Starde).

The AASHO road test: report.

National Research Council. Publication 816, 951-955, 1061.

Manual for the construction and maintenance of skid surfaces corresponding to those prepared by Texas Transportation Institute under National Bureau of Standards contract CST-451. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : roller, vibratory, self-propelled, high impact, single smooth drum (CCE) Tampo model RS-28 (NSN 3895-01-012-8875).

"June 1992."

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists (including depot maintenance repair parts and special tools lists) : bituminous distributor body, M918 (model D-63), NSN 3895-01-028-4390.

"December 1992."

Organizational maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : distributor, water, tank type, truck mounted gasoline driven, NSN 3825-00-954-9033, McLeod model W15A non-winterized : multifuel driven, NSN 3825-00-774-9090, McLeod model W15A winterized : multifuel driven, NSN 3825-00-077-0550, McLeod model W15A4112 : diesel driven, NSN 3825-00-474-3742, McLeod model W15B9019.

Includes indexes.

Direct support and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : distributor, water, tank type, truck mounted gasoline driven NSN 3825-00-954-9033 : McLeod model W15A non-winterized : multifuel driven NSN 3825-00-774-9090 : McLeod model W15A winterized : multifuel driven NSN 3825-00-077-0550 : McLeod model W15A4112 : diesel driven NSN 3825-00-474-3742 : McLeod model W15B9019.

Includes indexes.

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : distributor, water, tank type, truck mounted gasoline driven (NSN 3825-00-954-9033), McLeod model W15A non-winterized : multifuel driven ....

"March 1992."

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists ... : distributor, water, self-propelled, 2500 gallon capacity, sectionalized and non-sectionalized models 613BWDS and 613BWDNS, NSN 3825-01-143-1213, NSN 3825-01-143-1212.

"March 1992."

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : spreader, aggregate, towed; 8 ft. spread, Garwood model M5-8FT serial numbers 101 thru 200 and 201 thru 374, NSN 3895-00-836-7324.

"June 1992."

Operator, organizational, direct support, general support, and depot maintenance manual : spreader, aggregate, towed-type, traction powered, highway model R, FSN 3895-436-2835.

"21 June 1973"--Change no. 1.

Operator and organizational maintenance manual : paving machine, bituminous material, gasoline engine driven, crawler mounted, 8 to 10 feet wide (Barber-Greene model SA-35), FSN 3895-057-8715.

"December 1974."

Unit, direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists ... : paving machine, bituminous material, gasoline engine driven, crawler mounted, 8 to 12 feet wide, NSN 3895-057-8715, Barber-Greene model SA-35.

"January 1992."