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motorway and road maintenance
The RMD guarantees asset management, maintenance and
repairs of motorways and roads of the class I. It performs
maintenance of motorways and some expressways by own
employees from fifteen Centers of motorway management and
maintenance (SSUD) and one Centre of expressway management
and maintenance (SSURS).
The asset management and repairs of the class I roads are
guaranteed by 13 regional RMD administrations, maintenance
is performed on the contractual basis after evaluation of a selection
procedure.
Since October 2007 there will be changes of organization of
class I roads. In regions, where there are regional centres of
road maintenance (SUS) guaranteeing maintenance of roads of
the class II and class III, these SUS will perform maintenance of
the class I roads as well, on the basis of a direct contract with
the Ministry of Transportation of the Czech Republic. In other
regions (Central Bohemian, Karlovarsky, Hradecky, Southern
Moravian, Zlinsky) and statutory cities (Brno, Ostrava, Plzen)
maintenance of the class I roads will be further guaranteed on
the basis of selection procedures with individual companies.
One of the main tasks in the area of maintenance is guaranteeing
winter maintenence, which takes up to 30 – 40% overall
costs of maintenance. Currently obtaining precise meteorological
data and forecasts is among top priorities of winter maintenance,
in order to be able to apply preventive maintenance
more effectively, which would enable to increase fluency of the
traffic flow and to reduce accident rate. In 2006 the first three
motorway tunnels were opened to traffic including control centres,
which has a considerable influence on maintenance costs
increase.
The ongoing lack of funds for large-scale maintenance and repairs
in the last few years accompanied by increasing transport
intensities and number of heavy vehicles has had a negative effect
on the construction condition of the roads and bridges of
both motorways and class I roads.
As for motorway pavements, particularly pavements of the oldest
motorways D1 and D2, where first sections have been in
operation 36 and 29 years resp., are in a critical construction
condition. As for the class I roads some variable parameters
are unsatisfactory almost at 30% of the entire network.
Unfavourable condition of bridges is amply known. The RMD
endeavours to create a bridge programme, which would commence
with systematic solution.
During 2007 the Ministry of Transportation in cooperation with
the State fund of traffic infrastructure considerably increased
the maintenance and repair budget. Most of the financial funds,
however, is still allocated into construction of the trunk motorway
network and it can be therefore generally stated that
finance funds for maintenance, repairs and reconstructions of
existing motorway and road network should be even more considerably
consolidated.
v costs of the centres of motorway and expressway management and maintenance
(SSUD, SSURS) and the operation section of the RMD and the branches [ mil. czk ]
1 2 3 4
mil. czk km mil. czk
year motorway average indexed costs
costs km to 1990 per km
1990 107,5 338,9 1,000 0,317
1991 109,5 356,8 0,638 0,196
1992 245,0 363,9 0,574 0,387
1993 326,7 372,3 0,475 0,417
1994 353,4 390,6 0,432 0,391
1995 397,9 407,2 0,396 0,387
1996 418,2 427,5 0,364 0,356
1997 361,8 446,1 0,336 0,272
1998 341,9 508,4 0,303 0,204
1999 374,7 524,8 0,297 0,212
2000 358,4 531,3 0,286 0,193
2001 377,7 542,7 0,273 0,190
2002 513,7 551,8 0,268 0,250
2003 504,3 556,1 0,268 0,243
2004 673,1 584,8 0,261 0,300
2005 784,1 588,3 0,256 0,341
2006 941,7 620,6 0,249 0,379
v contributions for road maintenance and repairs [ mil. CZK ]
1 2 3
mil. czk
mil. czk
year road indexed in 1990
contributions to 1990 prices
1990 3 507 1,000 3 507
1991 2 953 0,638 1 884
1992 3 032 0,574 1 742
1993 3 754 0,475 1 785
1994 4 033 0,432 1 743
1995 5 227 0,396 2 071
1996 6 073 0,364 2 212
1997 6 037 0,336 2 026
1998 4 914 0,303 1 490
1999 6 480 0,297 1 924
2000 6 851 0,286 1 958
2001 6 094 0,273 1 664
2002 7 396 0,268 1 983
2003 7 814 0,268 2 093
2004 8 292 0,261 2 161
2005 2 026 0,256 518
2006 3 745 0,249 934
■ costs motorways
■ converted to per 1 km
Legend:
1 • Non-investment costs of the SSUD and the Operating Section of the RMD and the branches,
without depreciation. The SSUD costs include wages
2 • Statistic kilometres according to the days in operation in the given year
3 • Index of prices to 1990 on the basis of the Czech Statistical Office
4 • Costs per 1 km [2] corrected according to the index [3] to 1990 prices
Source: Annual Reports and the CSO
■ contributions for roads ■ in 1990 prices
Legend:
1 • Non-investment contributions made for road maintenance, since 2005 only class I roads. Since
2005 the regional budget is used to finance class II and III roads.
2 • Index of prices to 1990 on the basis of the CSO
3 • Amount of contributions [1] corrected according to the index [2] to 1990 prices
Source: Annual reports, the CSO and the brochure – roads and motorways in the CR 2005
v number of bridges on class I roads and motorways in the CR according
to the structural state of the load-bearing construction
state as of 1. 1. 2007; total of 4 178 bridges
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