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Investment Decision Framework for Infrastructure Asset Management [Kumar, RMIT] 2001-010-C

Project participants and team members

 

Arun Kumar

Arup Australasia

Bruce Johnson

John Holland

John Reddie

Qld Dept of Main Roads

Neil Robertson, John Spathonis

Qld Dept of Public Works

Dale Gilbert, Teng Hee Tan

Queensland University of Technology

Terry Boyd

RMIT

Saman De Silva, Arun Kumar- Project Leader, Anthony Piyatrapoomi, Sujeeva Setunge, Ashish Shah

University of Western Sydney

Alan Jeary

Project description

This project aims to develop an investment decision-making framework that will enable funds in the area of civil infrastructure, such as roads, buildings, railways and bridges to be better utilised by taking into account both capital investment and rehabilitation and maintenance expenses. In order to achieve this, the project will consider a triple plus one bottom line approach to decision making which includes economical, environment, social & political factors. In the first stage of the research, existing decision-making models being used in the road sector will be reviewed and a methodology for predicting and incorporating the effect of social, environmental and political factors during decision making will be developed. Following this, an integrated multi-criteria decision making model will be developed and tested for the road sector. Because of the models flexibility it will be able to be applied to other types of civil infrastructure such as railways, buildings, bridges complementing this financial modelling will be an assessment of the feasibility of the use of non-destructive testing of roads.
 
A probability-based analysis for identifying pavement deflection test intervals for road data collection (Refereed conference paper)
Building infrastructure asset management (Refereed conference paper)
Comparative study of building asset management practices (Refereed conference paper)
Optimisation of data collection (Refereed conference paper)
Reliability of optional intervals for pavement strength data collection at the network level (Refereed conference paper)
 
Strategy for the development of investment decision (Project report)
Investment decision framework for infrastructure asset management: A probability-based approach - Summary report (Project report)
National and international practices in decision support tools in road asset management (Project report)
Review of Australian and international practices for asset management in building infrastructure (Project report)
International practices in investment decision making in road sector (Project report)
National practices in investment decision making in road sector (Project report)
 
Framework for investment decision making under risk and uncertainty for infrastructure asset management (Journal article)
 
Road asset management investment (Brochure)