ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT National road owners are required to monitor the condition and performance of infrastructure elements through an effective inspection and assessment regime as part of an overall asset management strategy. Performance Indicators are parameters used to characterize the present and future structural conditions accounting for the goals specified by the codes, the owners or the operators. In Europe there is a large disparity regarding the way these parameters are quantified and the goals specified. In this context, COST action TU 1406 aims at providing quality specifications for roadway bridges standardized at a European level. In particular, one goal is to investigate the practical implementation of innovative condition assessment. In particular, this COST action collected the input from 36 countries in Europe, based on research-based performance indicators related to bridge maintenance, assessment and management. This paper introduces an Indicator Readiness Level (IRL) framework to rank the maturity level of those performance indicators at the research stage. In this paper the first results of the application of the IRL to the performance indicators collected in the context of the COST Action are reported.
