Many countries are experimenting with innovative contractual arrangementsfor the procurement of construction, maintenance and operation of roads. This paper aims to present a cross national comparison of the Finnish and the Dutch Model of Procurement and their respective developmental paths from the traditional setting where many of the works were still done in-house, to the present mix of innovative practices. From the field research in these two countries a role play/social simulation has been developed. The simulation is an abstraction of the plans to change the traditional prescriptive contracts used in periodic maintenance, to more long term and performance oriented contracts that cover a whole road network. A generic version of the game has been built and tested with two different groups. The goal is to play the simulation with civil servants and representatives from the different actors in both countries and discuss the results with national experts. This paper presents the results from the comparison as well assome preliminary results of the social simulation. The insights from these two research activities could be of significant influence as to how the management of road infrastructure assets is organized in the future. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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