ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Over a number of years the UK Highways Agency has developed ever more sophisticated methods for assessing the condition of its strategic road network and selecting the most economic maintenance treatments based on a continuous value management process with an adaptable multi criteria decision tool to provide the essential guidance. The paper describes this approach, in particular the comprehensive range of regular surveys at traffic speed of functional and structural condition at network level and the slower speed tools for the more detailed project level investigations. The consequent rigorous assessment of all proposed maintenance schemes, using the condition information as input to the multi criteria decision tool, has demonstrably achieved a consistently high technical quality. Established standards are applied more consistently and the latest research findings are considered positively to achieve quick wins.
