Developing Performance Measures for Asset Preservation in New South Wales

Long term road maintenance contracts formulated upon performance management systems have been evolving since the mid 1990s. In Australia, the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority is now embarking upon its second generation of performance specified maintenance contracting. The initial performance specified maintenance contract commenced in 1995, and is now terminating. The new contract has drawn upon the experience of road authorities worldwide and uses an asset management planning and performance monitoring system at its core. The new contract requires the implementation of an integrated management system to plan and monitor the management of the assets to deliver long term sustainability and short term serviceability. The management system components are: the application of asset management technology processes to plan maintenance treatment programs and predict future performance; a structure of management plans to plan and control service delivery; monitoring of the performance of the management plans through quality management using regular surveillance, reporting and auditing; evaluation of asset condition and asset treatment performance at the sub-network level against annual condition targets to assure asset sustainability; and evaluation of the performance of the maintenance functions against short term specified intervention and rectification standards for user comfort and safety. The intent of the contract design is to achieve a sustainable inventory of road assets maintained by a planned treatment cycle based upon predictions of future condition, all in a self-monitoring management environment. This paper details the contract requirements, particularly the cycle of asset management processes.

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• Authors:
  • Jarvis, Richard
• Conference:
  • Seventh International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets
  • Location: Calgary Alberta, Canada
  • Date: 2008-6-23 to 2008-6-28
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: 7th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets, June 23-28, 2008, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: "Preserving What We Have, Investing in the Future, and Finding the Balance"

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Serviceability; Sustainable development
• Identifier Terms: New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority
• Geographic Terms: New South Wales
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01447719
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 2012 3:30PM