A general description concerning the current use of technical informationin Mexico as an input to the decision making processes related to roads preservation and improvement is presented in this paper. The first part of the document provides a background on the main activities carried out by road authorities and other actors to promote the deployment of infrastructure management systems. In this section, particular attention is paid to those projects undertaken by the Transport and Communications Ministry (SCT)leading to systematically analyse the maintenance and upgrading needs of the federal trunk network. The role played by the Mexican Transport Institute (IMT) in supplying guidelines for systems development, offering training activities and providing consultancy services is also addressed. IMT isa transportation research centre dependent on SCT. Subsequent sections ofthe document present the results of an opinion survey conducted among road officials in order to bring together their perceptions about topics suchas technical data being acquired by their organizations, relevance attributed to that information as part of decision making, deployed management systems, preferred approaches for road maintenance and institutional provisions required for systems implementation. Background information, in conjunction with that collected by means of the opinion survey, is then used todiscuss the integration of technical inputs into the decision processes of road organizations in the country. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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