Unsealed Gravel Roads Management Systems Programming and Data Management

摘要

This paper summarizes the processes a programmer or data manager should go through whenassisting with implementing or upgrading a gravel roads management system (GRMS). It describesthe process of getting critical inputs from unsealed road managers, the initial and ongoinginputs to a GRMS, the algorithms that are recommended for analyzing data inputs, and the databasestructures for storing and managing information needed to operate a GRMS.A cyclic maintenance scheduling procedure, triggered maintenance programs and network-leveloutputs, such as financial tables and performance assessments, are described.Issues relating to how unsealed roads data are collected are discussed, particularly the effects ofgathering data for accountants rather than for engineers. To address this issue, eight unsealedroad maintenance tasks are proposed.