Highway Maintenance & Market Research

Along with the rapid development of expressway construction, we will be faced with a problem of expressway maintenance, which relates to the service standard and sustainable development of expressway. This article starts with the expressway maintain management system of our country, bases on the expressway maintain management system of foreign countries, then brings forward a viewpoint that expressway maintenance should realize market tendency. This article analyses the necessity and the feasibility of expressway maintenance's market tendency from five and four aspects respectively, and points out the feasibility of maintenance's market tendency to a high degree of the whole expressway industry. Then, the article puts forward the expressway maintenance's market tendency model which includes founding specialization maintenance company, carrying out the system of bidding and entering a bid, carrying out the system of managing by contract on the base of being clear about the overall goal and guiding principle of expressway maintenance's market tendency. It compares the market tendency model with the traditional maintenance model. What we should take care of is we should bring the functions of the government and the trade associations in the model. At last, the article makes an inquiry into the use of the maintenance's market tendency model. It puts forward some views in accordance with the difficulties that we may meet.