Maintaining Roads with Asset Management

Maintaining and managing roads as an important asset is also a key focus of the first Pavement Preservation and Recycling Summit (PPRS), 22-25 February 2015 in Paris.

PIARC recently moved into new territory by tackling road asset management, which has evolved into a sophisticated and comprehensive tool that infrastructure owners are keen to hone to perfection. Their report, The Importance of Road Maintenance, emphasises the role of roads as key national assets underpinning economic activity, and makes the case that the impact of road maintenance is diverse and brings widespread benefits. It confirms that timely investment not only preserves current assets, but also saves future costs. Also, it advocates a long term vision based on a clear strategy that allows for savings in the long term and underlines the critical need for properly managed maintenance and investment.