Sustainable Asset Management in Road Transportation

摘要

The road transportation sector in many countries is faced with the need to simultaneously address two overarching challenges; the need to undertake effective asset management,with the broader need to develop business processes,while embracing sustainability principles.This paper presents a systematic approach for integrating sustainability principles into road asset management practice using performance measures.The key feature of this approach is that it moves away from the traditional approach of a road asset management perspective concerned with physical assets,and instead promotes a holistic view of all tangible and intangible assets relevant to road transport.Additionally,the sustainability evaluation has been extended to cover six relevant dimensions including economic,financial,technological,social,corporate and environmental.The paper also presents a framework for a sustainability performance measurement that can be used by road agencies to assess and monitor the performance of their asset management practice in a systematic manner.The proposed framework includes a set of goals,relevant to road transport asset management (RTAM),for each of the six sustainability dimensions.Each goal is further defined by a set of objectives,indicators,and performance measures that are relevant to the different aspects of RTAM.