Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 4.5 Trunk road network: Residual Life1 (years)
(a) Residual Life of Pavements (i.e. road surface) as percentage of Surveyed Network
Residual Life (years) Surveyed2,4
Network
length (km)
<0 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 >19
percentages
1997-98 11 8 11 8 8 54 1,285
1998-99 10 9 9 8 7 57 1,461
1999-00 10 8 10 9 10 53 2,123
2000-01 9 7 9 8 8 59 2,545
2001-02 4 4 7 7 10 68 3,617
2002-03 4 4 7 7 11 67 4,048
2003-04 4 4 6 7 12 67 4,048
2004-05 4 5 6 7 13 65 4,048
2005-06 4 4 6 7 15 63 4,048
2006-07 5 4 6 7 15 63 4,048
2007-08 4 4 7 7 13 65 4,048
2008-09 4 4 6 7 11 68 4,048
2009-10 5 5 7 8 11 64 4,048
2010-11 5 4 6 7 9 69 4,108

Source: Transport Scotland - Not National Statistics

(b) The proportion of the motorway/dual carriageway trunk road network, which require close monitoring3
Motorways Dual carriageways
Requires
close
monitoring
%
Length 4 of
network
surveyed
(km)
Requires
close
monitoring
%
Length 4 of
network
surveyed
(km)
2002-03 7.5 631.5 5.2 949
2003-04 9.0 631.5 5.1 949
2004-05 9.2 631.5 3.9 949
2005-06 6.7 632 3.2 949
2006-07 6.1 632 2.7 949
2007-08 8.2 632 3.9 949
2008-09 4.3 632 4.1 949
2009-10 6.3 632 5.5 949
2010-11 6.2 632 3.4 949

Source: Transport Scotland - Not National Statistics
1. Residual life represents the number of years to elapse before the pavement reaches the stage when it may be necessary to undertake relatively more expensive reconstruction rather than strengthening to restore its full life.
2. Surveyed network is the length of the network which has been surveyed and which was increasing year by year until the target of complete survey coverage was achieved. Therefore, these figures may not represent the current position in each of the years, and apparent year-to-year changes may be due to the expansion of the surveyed network - see paragraph 4.2.2.
3. The part of the network that requires close monitoring is that which has a residual life of less than zero.
4. Network length is carriageway kilometres, i.e. 10km of dual carriageway counts as 20km, hence the difference from Table 5.1.