Abstract
Managing road performance and transportation efficiency with the Opti-Grade system
Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics (SURF), 5th (Toronto, Canada, 06-Jul-2004 - 10-Jul-2004)
2004
Abstract
FERIC developed a performance based road maintenance management system that focuses maintenance on the road segments that need grading most, thereby making the most efficient use of graders, lowering grading costs, and improving the performance of the roads. Today, the system is used on a variety of operations to manage road maintenance, to facilitate research projects aimed at optimizing maintenance operations, to provide a decision support tool for managing road rehabilitation, and to provide a means of evaluating how the quality of the running surface affects trucking costs. FERIC worked with a company in western Canada (Alpac) to complete the first phase of a study to assess the impact of road roughness on haul costs. The study's main objective was to find the right balance between minimizing road maintenance costs and maximizing the efficiency of the transportation system. The potential benefits for the company were large, since according to Alpac, each reduction of 1 minute in cycle times translated into a saving of more than $75 000 for their fleet. This paper presents a summary of the potential offered by Opti-Grade as well as the results of our ongoing research.
Details
- Title
- Managing road performance and transportation efficiency with the Opti-Grade system
- Authors
- S Mercier (Author)Mark W Brown (Author)Y Provencher (Author)
- Conference details
- Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics (SURF), 5th (Toronto, Canada, 06-Jul-2004 - 10-Jul-2004)
- Organisation Unit
- Forest Industries Research Centre; Tropical Forests & People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450237802621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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