Pavement Management at Transit New Zealand: Current Challenges and Progress with Recent Initiatives

Transit New Zealand (Transit) manages the national highway network and all its associated assets. This paper defines asset management in the Transit context, and starts by explaining the key challenge of integrating Transit’s business into an asset management framework. The paper then goes on to describe specific challenges related to pavement asset management, with regard to performance reporting based on high speed road condition and skid resistance data. Transit has collected such data for more than 10 years and experience has been gained in manipulation of the data to drive meaningful management decision making at both the project and network level. Recently, concerns have been expressed that such summarised reports are not adequately identifying trends on the network as perceived by practising engineers. The paper explores the initiatives taken to address these issues, starting from research and development of the raw data collection principles through to statistical issues surrounding data summarisation and processing.

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• Authors:
  • Parkman, Chris
• 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; References;
• Pagination: 8p
• 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; Data collection; Decision making; Information processing; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance
• Identifier Terms: Transit New Zealand
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Pavements; I10: Economics and Administration; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01447734
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 2012 3:30PM