Asset Management Business Framework New Brunswick Department of Transportation

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Asset ManagementBusiness FrameworkNew
BrunswickDepartment of Transportation

• AASHTO Conference
• April 16, 2008

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Agenda

• What is Asset Management and Why Now?
• How it works
• The Project
• The Results

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Asset Management at NBDOT

• NBDOTs Asset Management Business Framework
  (AMBF) provides the department with information,
  tools, business processes and resources to be
  able to select the
• right treatment for our assets
• at the right place
• at the right time

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Asset Management at NBDOT

• Identifies the best time to apply the most
  economical treatment minimizing the life-cycle
  cost
• Introduces an early intervention strategy that,
  over time, will provide an acceptable performance
  level at the least cost

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What is an Asset?

• Capital assets include
• Highways
• Bridges
• Ferries
• Highway fixtures
• Buildings
• Highways and bridges are being introduced first
  at NBDOT. Other assets will follow during a
  continuous improvement process.

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Why Asset Management Now?

• Accountability
• Protect the public investment in our
  infrastructure by being fiscally responsible in
  the planning and execution of departmental
  activities

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Why Asset Management Now?

• Sustainability
• Must be able to sustain the condition of a large
  inventory of assets over time
• 3000 Structures
• 18,600 km highways
• 6,000 km (Asphalt)
• 9,300 km (Chipseal)
• 3,300 km (Unsurfaced)

1,000 km (local asphalt)

12,600 km (chipseal unsurfaced)
Rural Road Infrastructure 13,600 km
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Why Asset Management Now?

• Aging infrastructure increasing traffic and
  growth in movement of goods

Mature Decks
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Current Age of Asphalt Highways
Mature Asphalt
km
Age
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Why Asset Management Now?

• Information Age (data rich)
• Innovative data collection techniques
• high speed networks
• advanced data storage capabilities and
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• The above have given us the ability to process
  large amounts of information required to do
  long-term predictive modeling for asset
  management.

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Premise Behind Asset Management
Steep Condition Drop
Very Good
1 invested in minor rehab at this point
Good
would cost 2-3 for major rehab if delayed until
this point
Asphalt Condition
Fair
and 5-6 for reconstruction if delayed until this
point
Poor
0 yrs
11yrs
17yrs
Age
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Overview of Modeling Assets Treatment Selection
Preservation
Minor Rehab
Major Rehab
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Conceptual Budget
Asset Inventories    
Asset Condition 
Long-term Investment Plan (Mathematical Model)
Deterioration Curves
Treatment Information
Performance Measures
Must Do Projects
20-year plan
4 Year Program Tool    
1- year program
Other Criteria  
Actual Budget
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The Requirement

• Needed to answer
• What investment (now and future) is required to
  deliver a defined level of service (condition).
• AND
• What level of service (Asset Condition) can we
  provide with a defined investment.

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Using the Model

• Three scenarios were generated for the entire
  highway network using the asset management model
• X million/year
• 2X million/year
• Least Life Cycle Cost/Asset Management Approach

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20 Year Rehabilitation Funding Effects on
Entire Highway Network Condition (Poor Roads)?

A
KM of Roads in Poor Condition
11,500 -
X
B
2X
1,400 -
C
3X
Least Life Cycle Cost/Asset Management Approach
700 -
2027
2007
2020
2015
2010
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20 Year Rehabilitation Funding Effects on Highway
Network Condition (Poor Roads)?
20 Year Rehabilitation Funding Effects on
Entire Highway Network Condition (Poor Roads)?

A
KM of Roads in Poor Condition
11,500 -
X
3X (Worst First)?
B
2X
1,400 -
C
Least Life Cycle Cost/Asset Management Approach
3X
700 -
2027
2007
2020
2015
2010
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Modelling Bridges Results Condition States
Excludes Bridge Size Culverts
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The Project and Challenges

• Four years
• 1.5 million
• Communication and Consensus building
• Change Management
• Political Buy-in
• Competition from other Departments

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A New Direction Cultural Changes




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The Results

• For fiscal 2008 2009 the Department has
  received the largest ever capital budget for
  rehab of roads and bridges - 340M and a
  commitment for similar funding for the next two
  years.
• Projects are coming in at lower than expected
  bids because of the economies of scale
• Other Provincial Departments with capital budgets
  have been instructed to implement similar models.

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NBDOTs Innovative Asset Management Solution

• NBDOT received a 2007 Knowledge Industry
  Recognition Achievement (KIRA) Award and is a
  Canadian Information Productivity Award (CIPA)
  Finalist
• Featured in CIO and Government Executive
  Magazines
• Other provinces as well as countries such as
  Australia and Costa Rica are interested.

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NBDOTs Innovative Asset Management Solution

• University of New Brunswick to further develop
  NBDOTs AMBF
• Develop new/expanded AMBF methodologies
• Develop software solutions for transportation and
  municipalities. Expand on NBDOTs solution.
• This will lead to the future establishment of
• An Infrastructure Management Maturity Model - IM3
• An Asset Management Center of Excellence in New
  Brunswick

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Center of Excellence

• Initially a single graduate course
• Major in civil infrastructure sustainable
  management
• Combines
• traditional engineering,
• Finance economics,
• management techniques,
• sociology,
• information systems
• Draw students and researchers from around the
  globe
• Produces Asset Management research and graduates

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Contacts

• Ken Fitzpatrick Director of Information
  Management and Technology
• Ken.Fitzpatrick_at_gnb.ca
• Kim Mathisen Assistant Director of GIS
• Kim.Mathisen_at_gnb.ca
• Mark Gallagher Civil Infrastructure Management
  xwave
• Mark.Gallagher_at_xwave.com

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• Thank you!

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Condition States X Million
A
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Condition States 2X Million
B
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Condition States3X Million AssetManagement
Approach
C
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