Best Practice - Sealed Roads Maintenance –Roads/Streets Hierarchy Categories

 

Current practice in sealed road maintenance for road hierarchy categories is listed in order of annual maintenance cost ($/yr) from lowest to highest.  Also shown are the key variables affecting life cycle cost identified in pilot council testing. 

 

The reported sealed road maintenance expenditures exclude reseals, street sweeping and grass cutting.

 

Care is to be taken in interpreting the best practice report, as there are many factors, which affect annual maintenance costs.

 

To see full details for each example, click on the Council name hyperlink.

 

Council

Road/ Hierarchy Class

Maint. cost ($/yr)

Age of seal (yrs)

Traffic (AADT)

% Heavy Vehicles

Urban/ Rural

Seal type

Ararat (RC)

Hierarchy Urban S3

$91

7

150-500

1-5%

Urban

Flush seal

Ararat (RC)

Hierarchy Urban S1

$245

8

1000-5000

1-5%

Urban

Flush seal

Ararat (RC)

Hierarchy Urban S2

$688

6

150-500

1-5%

Urban

Flush seal

Ararat (RC)

Hierarchy Rural S1

$714

7

10-150

5-10%

Rural

Flush seal

Ararat (RC)

Hierarchy Rural S2

$1,414

6

50-100

5-10%

Rural

Flush seal

Manningham (C)

Urban Collector

$1,538

15

1000-5000

5-10%

Urban

Asphalt

 

 

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