The conservation of roads costs 70% less than raising the infrastructure from zero

And is that the total or partial rehabilitation of the road infrastructures Spaniards in base to the measure of his behaviour can be the only form to guarantee that they stand up to half and long term, especially, if it is necessary to adjust the investment in preventive conservation, the most important of all. According to data of the RACC and of the Spanish Association of the Road (AEC), the cost in the Network of Roads of the State has descended of 1.257 millions in 2012 to 818 in 2013 by what does indispensable that now more than ever optimise the investment.

Like global figure, the 500 million annual euros that leave to invest in preventive conservation will transform , in hardly ten years, in an outlay of 2.500 million euros that will multiply until the 12.500 millions in the term of 25 years. And it is that each euro that leaves to invest in preventive conservation supposes at least five euros of future investment, a cost that increases exponencialmente with the step of the years.

With everything, Euroconsult stands out that the investment in conservation neither has to be indiscriminada, but it has to analyse in where, when and how invest to optimise to the maximum the public resources employees. And, especially, it has to direct his efforts to the preventive conservation, as for example to the reinforcement of the pavings, repintado of the marks viales and improvement of the vertical signaling.

In addition to the immediate profits, the conservation lengthens the useful life of the infrastructure between 20 and 30 years, by what no only avoids a greater outlay in his reconstruction, but at the same time it amortises the initial investment. The technical director of Euroconsult, Fernando Sánchez, explains that “if it conserves of way programmed a road, to the twenty years can keep intact, as recently built”.