Highway Infrastructure - Quality Improvements Would Safeguard Billions of Dollars Already Invested: Rced-94-198 (Paperback)


Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO: (1) reviewed states' experiences with using warranties in highway contracts; (2) identified efforts to provide adequate maintenance for federal-aid highways; and (3) identified opportunities for improving states' procedures for selecting pavement designs. GAO found that: (1) states' use of contract warranties is limited but generally satisfactory; (2) contractors have raised concerns as to whether warranties are fair and enforceable; (3) federal guidance could help states assess when warranties would be an effective tool for promoting quality; (4) many states have backlogs of maintenance projects, mainly because of resource constraints; (5) Federal Highway Administration (FHwA) oversight has not ensured that states adequately maintain federal-aid highways; (6) FHwA has not established maintenance performance standards for federal-aid highways; (7) many states do not consider the results of life-cycle cost analyses and exclude important data, such as maintenance costs, in selecting pavement designs; and (8) the lack of guidance on what design factors need to be analyzed undermines the states' use of this approach in making investment decisions.

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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO: (1) reviewed states' experiences with using warranties in highway contracts; (2) identified efforts to provide adequate maintenance for federal-aid highways; and (3) identified opportunities for improving states' procedures for selecting pavement designs. GAO found that: (1) states' use of contract warranties is limited but generally satisfactory; (2) contractors have raised concerns as to whether warranties are fair and enforceable; (3) federal guidance could help states assess when warranties would be an effective tool for promoting quality; (4) many states have backlogs of maintenance projects, mainly because of resource constraints; (5) Federal Highway Administration (FHwA) oversight has not ensured that states adequately maintain federal-aid highways; (6) FHwA has not established maintenance performance standards for federal-aid highways; (7) many states do not consider the results of life-cycle cost analyses and exclude important data, such as maintenance costs, in selecting pavement designs; and (8) the lack of guidance on what design factors need to be analyzed undermines the states' use of this approach in making investment decisions.

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Bibliogov

Country of origin

United States

Release date

June 2013

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First published

June 2013

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

86

ISBN-13

978-1-289-12229-4

Barcode

9781289122294

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1-289-12229-6



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