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Resources and Guidance

Guidance

The asset management working group of the UK Roads Board has produced guidance on asset management; the guidance comprises four documents that form a singe suite to provide a good overview.

• Highway Asset Management Quick Start Guidance note - getting started
• Highway Asset Management Quick Start Guidance note - risk assessment
• Highway Asset Management Quick Start Guidance note - levels of service
• Highway Asset Management Quick Start Guidance note - life cycle planning

The County Surveyors Society (CSS), together with the Local Authority Technical Advisors Group (TAG) have produced

• the Highways Asset Management Framework (June 2004).

• the Asset Valuation Guidance (Atkins 2005).

Both documents are companions to the UK Roads Liaison Group suite of maintenance Codes of Practice.

• The latest document is the Review of Transport Asset Management Plans (January 2008).

• CIPFA Code of practice on transport infrastructure assets : Guidance to support asset management, financial management and reporting (March 2010).

• See also IHE's Drainage page on Flood Risk, SUDs etc.

Scotland

SCOTS Road Asset Management website has links to a number of publically available documents:

• CIPFA Transport Infrastructure Assets Code for financial management (March 2010).
• CIRIA C677 - Whole-life infrastructure asset management, good practice guide for civil infrastructure (2009).
• CIPFA Review - HM Treasury Response (2008).
• A Guide to Asset Management and Capital Planning in Local Authorities (CIPFA 2008).
• DCLG Framework for LA Asset Management (February 2008).
• Highways Asset Management Papers (England).
• Examples of Road Asset Management Plan Documents (Scotland).

Useful links

• Pavement Condition Information Systems (PCIS). For pavement data collection and management: UKPMS, SCANNER etc.
• UK Footways and Cycletracks

IHE Training

In-house and regional courses delivered by exp consulting are now available.

Delegates are assessed and, if successful, are awarded an IHE Professional Certificate.