Global Motorway Maintenance: Diverging Strategies and National Priorities Compared

The analysis of motorway maintenance spending between 2019 and 2023 reveals a complex anduneven picture, shaped by infrastructure policy choices, economic contingencies, regulatorydevelopments, and different models of motorway network management. Maintenance is a strategicelement in ensuring the safety, functionality, and durability of motorways, and it is often an indicatorof the maturity and efficiency with which a country looks after its infrastructure, beyond theconstruction of new routes. From the data, two main trends emerge: on the one hand, countries thatmaintain or steadily increase investment, showing long-term planning; on the other, those withdiscontinuous or declining trends, where maintenance seems to depend on external factors rather thanon an organic strategy