This “Basic Maintenance for Low Volume Roads” workshop covers the common activities in maintaining unpaved and paved road surfaces. It covers the most common materials used in paved and unpaved roads and the properties/characteristics of each type of road. This workshop addresses the cause of the common problems on unpaved roads and how to best solve them. Maintenance of paved roads requires a different emphasis. An understanding of road defects in asphalt and maintenance to address each individual aspect is required.