This work provides an up-to-date description of road maintenance management. Written primarily from a management perspective, it provides insights into the relationship between the various functions involved in managing a modern road network. It has been developed based on the experience of project work in this field carried out in a number of countries. The text provides a framework for considering aspects of management, such as policy formulation, network considerations, staff responsibilities, level of data detail, cost estimating methods, and others, that relate to four basic management planning, programming, preparation, and operations. This text is for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of highway or pavement engineering worldwide. The book should also be of interest all universities with civil engineering courses; professional engineers involved in highway design and maintenance; and support World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Bank;and also bilateral aid donors, such as DFID (UK), SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD, FINNIDA, GTZ, and JICA.