It is urgent to strengthen the awareness of road maintenance
According to statistics, among the high-grade highways that have been built and opened to traffic in my country, about 80% are asphalt pavements. However, with the development of time, the influence of various climatic and environmental factors, and the high-intensity driving load, the asphalt pavement will have different degrees of degradation or damage. Pavement maintenance is to take effective technical means to slow down this degradation, so that the pavement can provide good service quality during its service life.
According to statistics, among the high-grade highways that have been built and opened to traffic in my country, about 80% are asphalt pavements. However, with the development of time, the influence of various climatic and environmental factors, and the high-intensity driving load, the asphalt pavement will have different degrees of degradation or damage. Pavement maintenance is to take effective technical means to slow down this degradation, so that the pavement can provide good service quality during its service life.
It is understood that a company in the United States has concluded through tracking research on hundreds of thousands of kilometers of highways of different grades and a large number of maintenance and repair practices that every one yuan of preventive maintenance funds invested can save 3-10 yuan of later corrective maintenance funds. The results of a strategic research plan for American highways also show that if 3-4 preventive maintenance is carried out during the entire pavement service life, 45%-50% of the later maintenance costs can be saved. In my country, it has always been “focusing on construction and neglecting maintenance”, which has largely led to a large number of early damages on the pavement, failing to meet the service level required by the design, increasing the traffic operation costs of road use, and causing bad social impacts. Therefore, relevant highway management departments must pay attention to highway maintenance issues, prevent and reduce various road diseases, so as to ensure that our roads have good service quality.