Developing and Operationalizing Integrated Cross-Asset Investment Planning for Public Infrastructure

Faced with a record quantity of built infrastructure to manage, agencies are under growing pressure to implement processes that will allow them to do so in an increasingly efficient and effective manner. For the purposes of this paper, the infrastructure asset management field is assumed to be the primary force driving the development and implementation of such processes. It should be noted that the asset management field itself is in its infancy stage, when compared to over a century of modern infrastructure construction. None the less, since its formal conception in the 1990s, there has been ample time for its concepts such as “the right treatment at the right time” to be accepted in managing agencies across the developed world. This paper proposes a perspective aimed at successful development and communication of cross-asset trade off analysis for bridges, pavements, sanitary, storm, and water distribution networks. A previously developed method for bridges and pavements is recapped in this paper, while the majority of the analysis focuses on the trade-off analysis between pavements and the underground infrastructure. One reason for taking this approach was to maximize the range of asset variety addressed within the prescribed constraints of the paper. The other, closely related, is to approach the challenge of advancing asset management from a multi-asset class perspective, as one agency is typically tasked with managing more than one infrastructure asset.

• Record URL:
  http://www.tac-atc.ca/sites/default/files/conf_papers/posavljak.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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• Authors:
  • Posavljak, M
  • TIGHE, SL
  • Larson, N
• Conference:
  • TAC 2016: Efficient Transportation - Managing the Demand - 2016 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 536 KB, 17p.
• Monograph Title: TAC 2016: Efficient Transportation - Managing the Demand - 2016 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Conferences; Economics; Evaluation; Maintenance; Networks; Planning; Risk assessment; Structures; Types of roads by network
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic networks
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 255: Economics; 3355: Engineering structure; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 3847: Maintenance; 1054: Network (traffic); 143: Planning; 9129: Risk assessment
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01616397
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Nov 15 2016 4:56PM