Identifying the Factors to Determine Inter-provincial Local Roads
Keywords:
AHP, Secondary road network, Rural road, Local roadAbstract
Abstract
Roads belong to the Local Government Organizations (LGOs) are usually inadequately maintained due to their owners' lack of funding. Meanwhile, the Department of Rural Roads (DRR) can offer its technical assistant in roadwork-related issues. DRR is a central road authority that has a mission to develop the secondary road network. Their roads connect special roads, national roads, concession roads, rural roads, and local roads that connect regions and provinces. It can be interpreted that DRR could develop important LGO roads that are operated according to these criteria. However, DRR has a limited fiscal budget which makes it impossible to fund all those potentially important LGO roads. Hence, this study aims to establish the key indicators that can be used to identify and prioritize the inter-provincial LGO roads to be developed by DRR. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is employed for the identification of the weightings of three primary indicators (i.e., engineering, economic, and social indicators) of which have 11 sub-indicators underneath. The sources of information used to determine weightings are based on interviews with 10 experts within the DRR. The resulting weightings could be used to determine the LGO road priorities to become an important provincial network.
Keywords: AHP, secondary road network, rural road, local road
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