Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation (AIT) owns the provincial highway network that is worth a total value of approximately $19.2 billon. AIT will be investing approximately $1.0 billion annually over the next ten years to enhance its network level. This requires conducting analysis on long-term and short-term periods, and investigates the impacts of various decisions while incorporating engineering principles and business logic to optimize funding expenditures. To achieve this goal, AIT is currently developing a highway Capital Planning Decision Support System (NESS) that will assist solving this multi-objective dilemma in shortterm and long-term horizons. This will assist to accomplish the overall benefit to the entire highway transportation system. The objective of this paper is to describe the Capital Planning Decision Support System concept and the proposed approach followed by Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation (AIT) to manage its highway network on a micro-level and subsequently a macro-level. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.
Samenvatting