In order to maintain its structural assets in good working condition and best allocate maintenance funds, Autoroutes du sud de la France (ASF) has established a formal set of asset management and follow-up policies. Thesepolicies enumerate the different obligations: the motorway specificationswhich delineate a number of more or less clearly defined requirements, the standards and the legislation binding upon motorway managers. Where there is no legislation, internal policy has been formulated and implemented to manage certain structures where failure could affect client safety, cause environmental harm or generate serious economic consequences. Accordingly, policies covering the pavement, the engineering and hydraulic structures, sewage and water protection systems, superstructures, vertical and horizontal signs, and other, have been established. Then, the paper describes in detail road follow-up and management and tools and systems used by the motorway manager. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
Samenvatting