Whole Life Management for Optimisation of Assets.

This paper identifies a process for the design, use and implementation ofa Pavement Management System (PMS), Maintenance Management System (MMS), Bridge Management System (BMS) and other components to form a single integrated Whole Life Management System (WLMS). Such a system, if correctly implemented, can provide significant benefits on networks such as Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and the traditional Government Road Agency (Jordan,2004). The benefits of integration and descriptions of business processesto carry this out are identified in addition to functional requirement considerations for a true WLMS System. These requirements are just as applicable for Private Enterprise as they are for Road Agency's departments requiring access to varying parts of the system for their requirements. This process to develop a WLMS system identifies requirements from the initial stage of asset creation through to maintaining the asset over the concession period / Road Agency "Permanent Moving Window". The context of this paper is to present a WLMS System process, associated methodologies and elements to be considered when developing and compiling a WLMS system. This new process provides PPP operators and Road Agency's potential multiple scenarios to assist in enabling greater control and performance of their networks which will benefit stakeholders, shareholders and the community.A contribution to the field of Asset Management is provided through the areas of cash flow analysis for road infrastructure monitoring and future predictionfor Government Road Agency's. Use of this process is highly beneficial inAnnual Refinancing Reports which provide indicators to shareholders of their investments, current 'health' and projected 'health'. It also providesa platform for performance-based road maintenance contracts and brings into view the community considerations that road network managers should nowbe taking into account. Such considerations include the socio-economic impact of the strategic decisions being made and efficiency impacts on the network through disruptions to road users. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.