| Title | Integrated research projects for improving road pavement quality — Developing PBC specifications for road maintenance |
| Dept | Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division |
| Year | 2012 |
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| Summary | The Performance Based Contract (PBC) has been successfully implemented as a standard part of road maintenance in many other countries for the past two decades. Unlike the traditional contract methods, the PBC measures the performance of road maintenance works based on the outcome rather than the output of the work procedures. This method has been established to significantly improve the cost effectiveness and job efficiency. It is expected to improve the domestic road maintenance labour if such innovative contracting methods can be implemented. However, PBC requires a complicated process in determining the performance indicators (PI); nonetheless, the related contract and tender systems also need to be appropriately established to ensure successful implementation of the PBC.
The research aims at developing a PBC-based model contract and specifications for public road maintenance work. The research activities include broad reviews of literature and case studies on PBC; definitions of road maintenance work; scope and development of road maintenance PI; association of PI vs. maintenance expenditure; drafting the execution mechanism for the process of submitting tenders, management, supervision, inspection and disincentives. The research also conducts a case study on improvement of the contracting documents for asphalt concrete (AC) pavement maintenance work. The result of interviews and focus group discussions of the domain experts, this research has developed the first-of-its-kind PBC-based contracting documents for AC road pavement maintenance work in Taiwan. Hopefully, the results of the research can provide public agencies with a useful basis for implementation of PBC-based road maintenance contracts. |
| Post date | 2012/08/13 |
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