As acomprehensive and systematical teaching material, this textbook concludescontents that are related to highway maintenance and management comprehensivelyand covers all fields involved systemically. The book adequately reflects thestatus quo of highway maintenance and management, introduces practical projectsas examples, and thus presents better applicability and reference. Maincontents of the book include the Outline of Highway Maintenance and Management,Maintenance and Management of Roadbed, Highway Asphalt Pavement, and HighwayCement Concrete Pavement, Highway Disaster Prevention and Maintenance inwinter, Fix and Maintenance of Traffic Project and structures along the sideand Highway Greening, Safety Maintenance and Management and so on.

Professor MaSonglin, who is the director of Road Engineering Institute of TransportationScience and Engineering Academy in Harbin Industry University, has mainlyworked on teaching road engineering as well as other relevant researches andtechnical consultation jobs. Currently, he is occupied in the research ofhighway route design, pavement test-evaluation-maintenance and managementsystem, rebuilding of old road and regeneration of pavement and road projecteconomic analysis. He has led and participated in scientific research programsat provincial and ministerial-level for more than 30 times and won the Award ofScientific and Technology Progress at this level for times. He has publishedmore than 40 papers and a monograph. He is also the winner of title ofExcellent Worker and Advanced Staff for several times.