A huge rural road network created recently in developing countries has resulted in increased social and economic benefits in rural areas. Thus, in order to reap the benefits of created assets it is essential to maintain the low volume rural road timely. Rural road network are deteriorating fast due to lack of timely maintenance, leading to higher vehicle operating costs, increasing number of accidents etc. The main objective of this study is to develop innovative strategies for rational allocation of resources for maintenance of low volume rural road network in a simple and cost effective manner. The important contribution of this study is a two stage strategy for maintenance of low volume rural roads. The strategy proposed in this study is illustrated with the help of example of some hypothetical rural roads network. Analysis results indicated that the proposed strategy is less time consuming simple and cost effective and can be executed with minimal data which can be obtained easily and economically from each section of a rural roads network.
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