Chapter 7: Local Road Maintenance Management 201 1. Road Maintenance The underlying objective of the road maintenance is to sustain the serviceability of a road over its economic life. Poorly maintained roads constrain mobility, significantly raise vehicle operating costs, increase accident rates and adversely affect the productivity of communities in the influence area. Road maintenance consists of activities to keep pavement, shoulders, slopes, drainage facilities and all other structures and property within the road margins as near as possible to their newly constructed condition. This includes minor repairs and improvements to eliminate the cause of defects and to avoid excessive repetition of maintenance efforts. For purposes of scoping and scheduling road maintenance activities are categorized as routine, periodic, or emergency. Although the need for maintenance is widely recognized, the activity continues to be widely neglected for various reasons. This has resulted in growing maintenance backlog and manifested in terms of decreased road asset value. This chapter provides an overview of the fundamental concepts in maintenance of local roads. Road maintenance means the routine annual and periodic repairs necessary to keep the road in “fair to good” condition. Routine annual and periodic maintenance work may be undertaken on local roads that form part of the core road network and have been rehabilitated or are core roads classified as being in good or fair condition. a. Creation of a construction safety and health committee; b. Ensuring safety and health information; c. Provision of construction safety and health training for relevant personnel; d. Submission of construction safety and health reports; and e. Provision of welfare facilities for workers. 2. Asset Management Local roads are one of the most important public assets of LGU. The construction of these road assets entails a significant amount of capital investment from the LGU. Once constructed, roads facilitate access to