Managing the Backlog?Steve BatchelorSaber (Asset Management) Ltd

2019

1979 West Sussex County Council, Assessment Engineer

1989 WDM, Engineer

1993 Data Collection Limited, Founder/MD

2003 Data Collection (India) Limited, Founder

2005 Roadware, CEO

2007 Retired

2010 Saber (Asset Management) Ltd

2016 Highway Management Services Ltd

2019 Retired (again)

1. Metrics

2. Current Status and Management Systems

3. Data Collection methods

4. Data Collection innovation

5. Data Delivery

Earliest Road found in Norfolk

First Highways Act passed upkeep of highways to

parish (4 days each Easter)

NZ founded

Roads Act introduced

the Road Fund

Romans invaded and built network (probably first DBFO)

First Toll roads – led to the Rebecca Riots 1839

Local Council given maintenance task

Ministry of Transport created classification system

Latest version of Highways Act

M25 (London Orbital) first suggested in 1913, opened 1986, now busiest road in Europe - "has taken 70 years to plan, 12 years to build, and just one year to find it was inadequate"

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NZ (84,000 km 63% sealed) Annual spend $12,500/km (source NZTA report NTLP 2015-18)

UK (345,000 km 100% sealed)Annual spend $9,500/km (source Parliament UK 2019)

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1. Metrics

2. Current Status and Management Systems

3. Data Collection methods

4. Data Collection innovation

5. Data Delivery

“It is clear to us that the key issue is funding—there is not enough of it and it is not allocated efficiently or effectively. Local government revenue funding has fallen by about 25% since 2010. The allocation within it for local roads is not ring-fenced and is often used by councils to plug gaps in other budgets. Capital funding—through the Pothole Action Fund and other pots—is sporadic and time-limited. This lack of funding certainty has caused many councils to take short-term, reactive decisions on road maintenance, which is more expensive and less effective than proactive maintenance that can be planned well in advance and the cost spread out over a number of years.” Transport Select Committee July 1st 2019

Incentive Fund encourage local authorities use of asset management principles into their management of highway maintenance and decision making around funding and priorities.

2019 Award

LTP Schemes

Reactive Maintenance

Skid Deficient

Sites

PROW

Structures

Drainage

Crash Barriers

ITS

Street Lighting

Footways

Signs and

Lines

Soft Landscape

Network Level Performance Management, Treatment, Strategies, Capital Investment Planning

Identification, Development and Prioritization of Capital Scheme Programs

Inventory, Hierarchy, Condition, Complaints, Reactive Works etc.

• The Code is designed to promote the adoption of an integrated asset management approach to highway infrastructure based on the establishment of local levels of service through risk-based assessment.

• Adopts a risk-based approach to infrastructure management

Created Maintained Removed

Service Level

Reduce/Sustain or Improve the level of performance:

If the level of performance exceeds the required standard or is unaffordable it should be reduced. For example, the frequency of maintenance might be reduced or the intervention level might be increased.

• The maintenance hierarchy of the road.

• The safety of road users.

• The impact on the movement of traffic if the asset fails.

• Value for money.

• The cost of bringing forward or delaying works.

• The lifecycle cost of the highway asset.

• The impact on future use of the highway.

• The environmental impact.

• The impact on the community including damage to property or impact on local businesses.

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UrbanRural UrbanRural

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= Reconstruct

= Edge treatment

= Milling Inlay with 20% RCN

= Thin Surfacing

= Surface Dress

= Overlay

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BSES +BWTR

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Location LocationBFEJ, BSDE,CDSU

BLED +BRED

= Wheel track crackingBCKJ

= Settlement/Subsidence + Rutting

BSES +BWTR

= Left Edge Deterioration + Right Edge Deterioration

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= Milling Inlay with 5% RCNMI5

= Milling Inlay with 10% RCNMI10

= Wearing Course Deterioration + Surface

Deterioration + Defective Surface Dressing

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1. Metrics

2. Current Status and Management Systems

3. Data Collection methods

4. Data Collection innovation

5. Data Delivery

1. Metrics

2. Current Status and Management Systems

3. Data Collection methods

4. Data Collection innovation

5. Data Delivery

• Replace visual surveys with suitableautomated survey.

• Only record defect information relevant to local roads.

• Condition based statistical analysis.• Standardised method of scheme

identification.• Link between user perception and data.• Identify effect of other data on scheme

identification.

Identified triggers for condition based maintenance on UK’s Local Roads:-

• Ride Quality

• Ravelling

• Small footprint

• Collect at traffic speed

• Process in real time

• Collect and analyse spatially

• 24/7 operations

• Non technical operators

• Video and location information are collected using a smartphone

• Manual annotations can be added in the field

• Manage all visual material in one system

• Print reports and pre-filled maintenance plans

• Automatically obtain information about traffic infrastructure

• Constant monitoring and change detection

1. Metrics

2. Current Status and Management Systems

3. Data Collection methods

4. Data Collection innovation

5. Data Delivery

• Reverse current Client/Consultant relationship

• Web based, e-commerce site

• Visually orientated – maps, charts

• Boundary free – analysis by polygon, single road to whole of country

• Analysis by access rights, i.e. pay for each level of access

• The UK’s local roads are under funded but asset management systems are in place and encouraged.

• Insufficient data to make informed decisions

• Skill base diminishing

• Private sector is taking the lead on development of data collection.

• Privately owned databases and analysis will take over from Local Authority in house systems.

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the

machine is fast, accurate, and stupid.

2019