This course has been discontinued
The Florida Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining the highways in a safe and comfortable condition for the users and for protecting the public investment in these facilities. Field supervisors are assisted in maintaining desired conditions by following recommended levels of service prepared by maintenance engineers for various highway elements (roadway-pavement, roadside, traffic services, drainage, and vegetation). These desired maintenance conditions are neither a minimum or a maximum condition, but rather a level of service influenced by a number of considerations such as safety, protection of public investment, comfort, economics, environmental impact, aesthetics and not least, money constraints on available resources (personnel, equipment and materials).
In the past, the decision of which elements should be maintained at a desired level of service and which should be allowed to regress were made informally by maintenance personnel (e.g., field supervisors). Consequently, because of these many and complicated factors, inconsistent decisions were made that resulted in unintended lower levels of maintenance.
To combat these inconsistencies and resulting lower levels of maintenance, a systematic and formal method of making policy decisions for desired levels of maintenance was developed. This method, called the Maintenance Rating Program, was implemented in April 1985 and is the basis for the FDOT Maintenance Rating Program Handbook. This 4-hour online course thoroughly reviews the handbook. This program considers diverse factors and allows different levels of service for varying maintenance elements and highway classifications.
Please Note: This course was developed specifically for FDOT employees. If you are not an FDOT employee, please check with your state board to determine whether you will receive PDH credit for this course.