ABSTRACT
Determining the end-of-life of infrastructures is an important decision in the Netherlands, where the large stock of assets currently reaches their design life. The Dutch Road Authority has set up a research program to address this on a national level. Currently, there are various documents describing the rules of aging. Yet information specifications are not defined. This forces the experts to focus on technical aging only and consider structures that are aged/too expensive to maintain in later stages. Since the scoping and budget assignment is based on the earlier prognosis, the process becomes suboptimal. There is a need for a holistic approach to identify ageing rules for the assessment of different object types. This paper presents an information model for navigation locks as a first step of such approach. It declares information needed to check rules automatically via case studies and proposes utilization of a technology as a future step.
