Highway maintenance quality optimization
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
ISSN: 1355-2511
Article publication date: 1 December 1996
Abstract
The Ministry of Communications (MOC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken an aggressive approach to optimize the condition of its highway infrastructure. This includes pavement, bridges, culverts, tunnels, rest areas, and the multitude of related highway elements that comprise the transportation network. By maximizing quality given the available resources, the Ministry ensures that the focus is global and does not result in suboptimal maintenance decisions within the various subsystems comprising this elaborate network. The MOC had the insight to realize that a quality management system was needed to address the maintenance aspects of the Kingdom globally. Describes selected aspects of that system. This system integrates many diverse components to best address attaining global or system‐wide quality.
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Citation
Harper, W.V. (1996), "Highway maintenance quality optimization", Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 81-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552519610153625
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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