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    The document discusses road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh. It notes that the country's road networks are expanding faster than increases in maintenance budgets and capacities. It then covers the different types of road maintenance including routine, periodic, rehabilitative, and emergency maintenance. Some key road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh include inadequate traffic control during works, lack of financial and institutional capacities, and lack of proper planning and funding for maintenance. The document concludes with recommendations such as improving road evaluations, ensuring adequate funding for maintenance, and acquiring more equipment to carry out works efficiently.

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    The document discusses road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh. It notes that the country's road networks are expanding faster than increases in maintenance budgets and capacities. It then covers the different types of road maintenance including routine, periodic, rehabilitative, and emergency maintenance. Some key road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh include inadequate traffic control during works, lack of financial and institutional capacities, and lack of proper planning and funding for maintenance. The document concludes with recommendations such as improving road evaluations, ensuring adequate funding for maintenance, and acquiring more equipment to carry out works efficiently.

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    CE-451

    Transportation Engineering – II
    Assignment
    On

    “Road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh”

    Rezvi Ahmed
    201711034
    CE-19
    Section-B
    In recent times road networks in Bangladesh are expanding
    much faster than corresponding increases in maintenance
    budgets and institutional capacities. The importance of road
    maintenance lies mainly in the need to protect the substantial
    investment that has been made on highways. Furthermore, the
    significance of the maintenance function is seen in the vital need
    to continue the economic and social benefits that are derived
    from the public road system.

    Classification of road maintenance:


    • Routine maintenance: Ii embraces work items such as
    filling of potholes and repairing ofcracks which are
    required to be carried out by the maintenance staff almost
    round the year.
    • Periodic maintenance: It covers more extensive
    maintenance operations such as applying a seal or renewal
    coat which are required to be done periodically every few
    years.
    • Rehabilitative maintenance: Operations required to bring a
    deteriorated road upto the original standard. In a perfectly
    maintained road there should not be any rehabilitative
    maintenance as it’s more expensive than other
    maintenances.
    • Improvements: minor improvements, widening etc. which
    are too small to involve a construction unit.
    • Emergency maintenance: Repairs required immediately to
    restore communication.

    The main reasons for maintaining a road are:


    • To prolong the life of the road.
    • To reduce vehicle operating costs.
    • To keep the road serviceable.
    • To ensuring road safety.

    Road maintenance challenges in Bangladesh:


    ▪ Problems for arrangement of traffic: Since the
    maintenance operation involve considerable hardship,
    inconvenience and hazard to traffic and also hazards to
    maintenance workmen all possible precautions should be
    taken to make safe arrangements for traffic. These include
    erection of barriers, signs, red flags and traffic. The
    maintenance locations are surrounded by white and ed
    stripped barriers, fences and directional cones to guide the
    approaching vehicles onto another line. Efforts should be
    made to confine work in half the pavement width at a
    time, leavung the other half for use byb the traffic.
    Selecting and positioning temporary road signs, the
    followings principles should be applied-
    ▪ Traffic control devices must always be in a good and
    usable condition.
    ▪ Traffic control devices must always be visible.
    ▪ Traffic control devices must be correctly located.
    ▪ Traffic control devices must be properly mounted and
    fixed and must possess adequate stability.

    Al temporary signs must be removed a soon as the work they


    relate to complete. It includes-
    o Clean tools
    o Load all tools, equipment and reusable materials on to truck.
    o Collect all traffic warning signs and cones, wipe clean and
    load onto truck, stacking them carefully.
    o Check that nothing has been left behind that the site is clean
    and neat.

    NRSC and Road Safety


    The Current Situation
    ➢ In Bangladesh the reported road
    accident fatalities have doubled in the last
    three years. At 58 deaths per 10,000
    vehicles, the fatality rate is now one of the
    highest in the world. This level of road
    deaths is unacceptably high and can be seen
    in the comparison chart below to be
    considerably higher than that of
    industrialised countries and to be noticeably
    higher than most of the other developing
    countries in this part of the world.
    ➢ Many of those killed were family
    breadwinners and many were children. In
    addition to the pain and suffering caused by
    these accidents they represent a significant
    drain on the Bangladesh economy. As well
    as those killed, many more are seriously
    injured and will suffer the consequences of
    their accidents for the rest of their lives.
    ➢ There are numerous reasons why
    there are so many road accidents in
    Bangladesh. More and more vehicles - are
    using the roads and between 1971 and 1997
    motor vehicles increased steadily from
    40,000 to 460,000. This, combined with
    rapid urbanisation, has seen the road
    accident casualty and fatality rates rise
    dramatically. Inadequate treatment of
    casualties, poor driver discipline, poor
    road-worthiness of many vehicles, and
    ineffectual legislation and enforcement
    practices are just some of the reasons which
    are regularly cited. Other contributing
    factors include adverse roadside
    environments, excessive speeding and the
    reckless behaviour of some road users.
    ➢ It is now accepted that without
    urgent action accident levels will grow
    even further. In both social and economic
    terms these are costs that the country can
    ill-afford to bear.
    ➢ In response to the growing road
    safety problem the National Road Safety
    Council was formed in 1995. The NRSC,
    under the chairmanship of the Minister of
    Communications and consisting of senior
    Government officers and representatives of
    the other key concerned agencies, was
    assigned the responsibility for formulating
    national road safety policies with the goal
    of reducing road traffic accidents.

    Maintenance work can be divided in the following four


    categories from the point of view of safety and traffic control:
    o Repairing the edges of the carriageway, shoulders, cleaning
    out drains, cutting grass etc. where carriageway in not affected.
    o Repairing the carriageway restricting to one lane while
    traffic can be allowed on the other lane.
    o While working on the center line such as center line marking
    to restricted width on either side.
    o Total closure of the road necessitating use of diversion due
    to widening/reconstruction of an existing road.
    ▪ Works on edge and shoulders: Before starting the work, all
    warning signs should be installed. When the work in
    completed then thse signs should be removed in the
    reverse order.
    ▪ Restricting the traffic to one lane: At times, the traffic is to
    be restricted to one lane only due to repairs being carried
    out in the order lane such as major patch repairs etc.
    ‘Men at work’ sign to be put up 200m before commencement
    of the work.
    o ‘Narrow road ahead’ should be at 100m ahead of work area.
    o ‘Keep left/right’ sign to be places at the commencement point
    of the work and next to the barriers on the either end of the
    work area.
    o ‘Barriers’ should be places on both side os the work area.
    o ‘Restricted ends’ signs should be installed 200m beyond the
    work area.

    ➢ Working in the center of carriageway: While working in


    the center of carriageway , adequate attention has to be
    paid from the safety point of view. Except in this case, the
    vehicles will keep only to the left in each direction.
    ➢ Financial capacity: The capacity to pay for road
    maintenance from domestic sources depends on a
    country resources. Gross National Product (GNP) per
    capita may thus be a good index for financial capacity, but
    some governments are able to capture more of it than
    others. And of the fiscal intake, the allocation to highways
    is a political e decision about national priorities.
    ➢ Instituional capacity: The difference in gross national
    product (GNP) per capita anf its rate of change, the ratio
    of network length to GNP, the age distribution of roads
    and the volumes of traffic – do not fully account fot the
    variation in road conditions from country to country.
    Institutional capacity has several facts. One is the size of
    labour force that can be applied to the activity. Others are
    the soundness of maintenance strategy – type , level and
    timing of intervention and the managerial and operation
    efficiency with which the strategy is executed. This
    depend, in turn, on such factors as governmental
    commitment, institutional structure, managerial ability,
    staff quality, accountability and incentives.
    Rural Road Maintenance Financing:
    ➢ Financing from Revenue Budget .
    ➢ Financing through Development projects by foreign
    assistances or Government Development program.
    ➢ Block allocation to Local Government Institutions like
    Union Parishads or Upazila Parishads or Zila Parishads.
    ➢ PBMC by foreign assistance program.
    ➢ Rural Road Maintenance Fund is ¼ of Rural Road
    Construction Cost.
    ➢ Almost 1% Cost is used in terms of Asset Value.

    Recommendations:

    • Before going for maintenance work, evaluation for road


    condition should be done properly. Quality control for
    maintenance materials must be assured.
    • Fund requirement for proper and timely maintenance
    must be estimated by the concerned organizations in
    appropriate time. Sufficient fund for maintenance to be
    assured.
    • Department and organization which are responsible for
    maintaining the road must chalk out a program of road
    maintenance at the end of the year. This must be placed
    to the appropriate authority so that allocation of funds
    can give as per requirement.
    • Departments and organizations concerned with road
    maintenance works should take steps to acquire
    number of equipments and machineries in order to
    undertake maintenance works speedily and effectively.
    • Upazilla connceting roads must be considered for
    maintenance and accordingly allotment should be given.

    Link to the References:

    http://www.rhd.gov.bd/Documents/RHDPublications/RoadsInBangladesh/Glossy
    _19

    https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/in435-14

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334372785_SAFER_ROAD_INFRASTRU
    CTURE_FOR_SUSTAINABLE_TRANSPORT_DEVELOPMENT_IN_BANGLADESH

    http://lib.buet.ac.bd/home/?q=node/6

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