Our Approach to Asset Management
We maintain and operate our trunk road network in the most effective way by consistently balancing:
- Investment needs for our assets to maintain suitable condition
- What our customers would like
- Our available funding
We achieve this by implementing an asset management approach which helps us deliver value to our customers. Asset management is a systemic way of enabling us to undertake the right activities, at the right time, for the right reason.
For over 20 years, we have adopted a structured asset management approach to managing our network, based on international best practice, and learning from other asset owners.
We achieve this by:
- Defining our aims and priorities to be understandable for our customers.
- Providing direction and guidance for our teams to develop the appropriate processes, capabilities, and support tools.
- Investing in data, system, contract, and performance improvements.
Our Structured Asset Management Approach Incorporates:
Alignment with Strategic Outcomes
How we align with the aims, priorities, and objectives of Scottish Government.
An Asset Management Framework
This defines the scope of our activities over the life cycle of our assets, focusing on improving our service, planning our delivery, delivering service, and managing performance through integrated data and systems (see Figure 1).
Asset Management Objectives
Our key aims which enable planning, prioritisation, and delivery of our activities.
An Asset Management Improvement Programme (AMIP)
A structured, prioritised programme of ongoing improvements which identifies and incorporates lessons learned.
Figure 1 displays the activities undertaken as part of our Asset Management Framework supported by asset management data and systems including, planning our delivery, delivering service, managing performance and improving our service.
