Course Description
The road transport network of any country plays a vital role in its economy, and the physical condition of its infrastructure is critical. Without adequate and timely maintenance, highways and rural roads alike inexorably deteriorate, leading to higher vehicle operating costs, increased numbers of accidents, and reduced reliability of transport services.
What Do Participants Learn?
Participants attending this training course will learn how to develop and improve the road maintenance management system for national and provincial roads by deploying Routine Maintenance Units (RMU) and Disaster Recovery Units (DRU) and providing training to maintenance personnel, and thereby contribute to infrastructure improvements and regional development targeting economic growth
Who Should Attend?
Participants attending this course should have a civil and construction background
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section one:
- Road Survey
- Introduction
- Pavements Types
- Basic Distress Mechanisms
- Condition Data Collection and Processing
- Automated Distress Survey
- Non Destructive Data Collection and Interpretation
- Drainage Survey and Evaluation
- Traffic Loading Evaluation
- Overall Project Evaluation
Section two:
- Pavement Maintenance Strategies
- Crack Sealing
- Patching With Bituminous Mixtures
- Automated Patching Equipment
- Cold Milling
- Surface Rehabilitation Treatments
- Video: Pavement Preservation
Section three:
- Development in Road Maintenance
- Recycling Overview
- Cold-In-Place Recycling
- Recycled Mix Design
- Hot Central Plant Recycling
- Hot Mix Asphalt Overlays
- Identification of Feasible Alternative
- Selection of the Preferred Rehabilitation Alternative
Section four:
- Pavement Management System (PMS)
- Introduction
- Need for PMS
- Current State of Practice in PMS
- Database Management
- GIS in PMS
- Inventory and History
- Inspection and Condition Surveys
- Condition Indices
- Pavement Condition Indices
- Performance Models
- Prioritization
- Optimization
- Pavement Quality
- Demonstration of a PMS – Case Study
Section five:
- Bridge Maintenance
- Types of Bridges
- Bridge components
- Construction Consideration of Bridges
- Bridge Problems and Distresses
- Bridge Inspection and Evaluation
- Bridge Management