PREMiUM – Understanding network-level measurement and management of road equipment

Abstract

The PREMiUM project aims to deliver improvements in the ability to manage road equipment at the network level, focusing on road markings, road signs, vehicle restraint systems and noise barriers. The key condition characteristics a road administration should include in their asset management strategy to manage the risks of loss of performance have been established. Following this, the views of users were sought on the characteristics that should be measured at the network level to manage the risks of loss of performance, and the alternative technologies available to obtain this data identified. The project has proposed survey regimes that could be implemented, subject to suitable development, to provide the key condition data that would assist in understanding and managing these assets. It has then considered the parameters that such a network level monitoring regime would provide, and proposed a set of condition indicators that could be utilised to quantify the condition of each of the assets, and how these could be used to assist in targeting maintenance planning.