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Highway Infrastructure: Quality Improvements Would Safeguard Billions of Dollars Already Invested

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 19, 1994
Report No. RCED-94-198
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Summary:

Federal, state, and local governments will need to spend about $50 million annually through the year 2011 to maintain the nation's highway infrastructure. This figure substantially exceeds the $26 billion spent in 1991 for construction and capital repairs for highways built with federal assistance. These funding levels make it imperative that investments in federal-aid highways be cost-effective. This report (1) reviews states' experiences with using warranties in highway contracts and the factors that promote or discourage the use of such warranties, (2) identifies efforts to provide adequate maintenance for federal-aid highways, and (3) identifies opportunities for improving states' procedures for selecting pavement designs.

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