Using industry expertise to help achieve a better outcome

摘要

Over recent years local authorities have been encouraged and incentivised to improve the way they manage their road assets. We have seen HMEP (Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme) publish asset management guidance and a lifecycle planning toolkit for local authorities to use. Over the past year or so we have seen the introduction of the Government's Incentive Fund Scheme to reward those councils who can demonstrate they are delivering good value for money by delivering improved efficiencies and cost effective improvements. This directly rewards good asset management by awarding the better authorities more capital funding. In 2016, the RSTA in association with TRL and other trade bodies (MSIG, ADEPT, TAG and HTMA) launched an economic prioritisation tool aimed at the pavement level to advise engineers on the range of treatment options now available and how they compare in terms of value when the treatments service life and life cycle is taken into account. So there is plenty of help, advice and training now available to assist highway authorities with developing and improving the way they manage their road assets.