Can councils maintain better roads without continually increasing their maintenance budgets?
Pothole repairs are necessary, but when reactive maintenance consumes funding intended for planned works, the long term cost of managing a road network can increase significantly.
This position paper examines how councils can balance reactive maintenance with preventive pavement treatments. Using financial modelling of a 3,384 km regional road network, it compares different funding strategies and investigates the annual investment required to maintain network condition.
The paper presents a practical framework for separating reactive and planned maintenance budgets, identifying appropriate funding proportions and protecting road assets from avoidable deterioration.
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