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Road maintenance

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Summary

Road maintenance covers a range of practices and aims. Roads experience wear and tear through combinations of vehicular use and accidents, weather and other natural events.  Further measures, such as gritting, can be used to mitigate the effects of weather or temperature conditions on the ability of vehicles to use a road. Beyond this, road maintenance can be used to realise benefits from developments in materials and in understanding of the impact of road building materials on pollution. 

 

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Text edited at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT