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The Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) is the custodian and steward of arterial road infrastructure across Victoria valued at $108 billion (gross replacement value). These roads carry the majority of Victoria’s traffic and provide for the movement of people and goods. In addition to this, the road system provides the infrastructure needed to support Victoria’s bus and tram systems. Therefore, it is imperative for DTP to plan, deliver, operate, and maintain a safe, equitable, efficient, and reliable transport system to support Victoria’s community and economy now and into the future.

DTP has developed a suite of asset management planning documents to align the organisation’s vision and asset management approach. This suite of documents is a foundation to align from top down and bottom up to ensure that all asset management practices have a clear purpose that can be tracked against strategic objectives and meet customer needs.

The Road Asset System Strategy (RASS) and the Structures Asset Management Plan (SAMP) are the two documents in the asset management documentation suite that enable DTP to define and establish how DTP manages structural assets to deliver the required levels of service.

The RASS specifies how asset management objectives will be met, how road assets will be managed and provided to deliver Levels of Service over asset lifecycles across asset classes in the road system portfolio. The road asset portfolio includes seven asset classes naming roads, structures, intelligent transport system, drainage, roadside natural and social, and roadside infrastructure.

The SAMP is a tactical plan that describes how structures assets will be managed across their life cycle and provides forward planning, including funding and resources required to achieve strategic intent.

This paper describes these two documents in detail and describes how they are helping DTP shape optimal asset management of its structures.