Ingår i: EPAM 2012: Malmö, Sweden, 5–7 September: 4th European pavement and asset management conference

In 2010 the trans-national funded ERA-NET Road (ENR) project “PROCROSS - Development of Procedures for Cross Asset Management Optimisation” started to develop optimized procedures for cross asset management of the total road infrastructure (including all sub-assets like pavements, structures, road furniture, etc.). The project aims at a recommendation for a holistic road asset scheme to balance the maintenance expectations of different sub-assets and stakeholders. This is somehow different to the traditional approach in asset management where monitoring and measurement data are used to assess condition levels for each sub-asset in the road transport system more or less separately. Overall life-cycle costs/performance and asset values are of secondary order within many actual procedures. The extension in a more proactive and holistic asset management approach considers all influencing parameters (e.g. age, environment, materials, deterioration processes, loadings, maintenance policies, etc.) and impacts from a more practical and applicable point of view. Only this enables combining different sub-assets (e.g. pavements, tunnels, bridges, culverts, walls, noise barriers, variable message signs, drainage systems, etc.) through experience and good practice into a combined cross asset framework. Furthermore, it includes impact assessment of condition and measures on the overall network value. The main benefit of such a holistic road asset scheme is on the one hand the saving of monetary and non-monetary resources and on the other hand the minimizing of negative impacts from socio-economic, technical and environmental points of view.