ABSTRACT
The Danish Road Directorate, DRD has for many years focused on Economic growth and increasing transport demands. Timely and well-defined maintenance is crucial, to maintain road network capacity whilst minimizing overall lifetime costs. The key to ensuring this is valid data. Through systematic work with data over the past 30 years, the DRD has managed to develop data-driven asset management and, on the basis of this, ensure government funding for maintenance. This is the reason that bridges and structures on the state road network are maintained to a high and safe standard - without maintenance backlog. Currently, a new Asset Management System is being procured. The future work will include focus on combining technical and financial data and an integrated approach to the maintenance job creation. This combined with a change from using condition-based parameters, to using a risk-based approach, will be basis for future prioritizing of maintenance work.
