Austroads’ Guide to Asset Management (GAM) provides guidance to road agencies on the application of contemporary ‘whole of organisation’ asset management practice to road networks.
This third edition of the GAM, published in July 2018, is based on the overarching asset management principles of the International Standard ISO 55000 which has a strong customer and strategic focus. The GAM includes the impact of autonomous vehicles on the road and digital infrastructure, measures to reduce the environmental impact of asset management and the practice of reliability centred maintenance. The GAM also documents the outcomes of Austroads funded research undertaken since 2009 covering asset condition monitoring equipment, asset performance prediction models and practices that account for risk.
The GAM consists of 15 Parts across three broad themes: Management Overview, Asset Management Processes, and Technical Information and includes some 62 case studies demonstrating how asset management is practiced.
The Guide to Asset Management comprises of:
- Guide to Asset Management – Overview Part 1: Introduction
- Guide to Asset Management – Overview Part 2: Managing Asset Management
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 3: Scope of Asset Management
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 4: Customer Needs, Expectations and Levels of Service
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 5: Strategic Approach to Managing Road Networks
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 6: Defining and Understanding Asset Requirements
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 7: Program Development and Implementation
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 8: Financial Management
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 9: Asset Information Management Systems and Data
- Guide to Asset Management – Processes Part 10: Implementation and Improvement
- Guide to Asset Management – Technical Information Part 11: Techniques to Reduce Social and Environmental Impacts
- Guide to Asset Management – Technical Information Part 12: Pavements
- Guide to Asset Management – Technical Information Part 13: Structures
- Guide to Asset Management – Technical Information Part 14: Other Assets
- Guide to Asset Management – Technical Information Part 15: Technical Supplements