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Roads are essential to a country’s economic and social development and one of the
largest sectors in the Ethiopian construction industry and it can be viewed as an
important national assets maintained regularly to bring social benefits. Roads that
have been constructed undergo a process of deterioration starts at a low rate and
increases with time directly after opening to traffic. Therefore road maintenance is
always a must to prevent deterioration that may shorten the service life of the road. In
appropriate road maintenance management strategies leads to inefficient and random
ways spending of maintenance cost. The study was conducted to assessment of road
maintenance and rehabilitation challenges in Ethiopian Roads Administration in the
case of Combolcha District. To achieve the objective, the data were collected by using
both primary and secondary sources of data from through a questionnaire survey,
interview and document review. The method of data analysis was made by using
relative importance index, fuzzy analytical hierarchy processes, and the questionnaire
survey was analysed by using the Microsoft excel. The research results show that
Price escalation on maintenance resource , Civil War/ Conflict, Land acquisition
resettlement and delayed compensation , Lack of fund, shortage of labour, material
and machinery, and Disease (COVID 19 Pandemic) were identified significant road
maintenance and rehabilitation challenges and the most important selection criteria
for road maintenance management strategies were quality, maintenance time,
environment, production cost, and profit. In the contrary, safety training, reliability
and maintainability were the least important road maintenance management strategy
selection criteria. Adopting preventive maintenance strategy, Provide appropriate
pavement management system,, developing the capacity of stakeholders and
government, and effective usage of allocated budget, improving collaboration and
partnering between key parties, were identified an excellent remedial measure for
road maintenance and rehabilitation challenges.
Key words: Maintenance,Maintenance management, Analytical hierarchy
processes, Fuzzy analytical method challenges and remedial measures. |
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