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Road Maintenance Review 2011
Welcome
Road Maintenance Review 2011
Minister for Housing & Transport
Keith Brown MSP
Opening Remarks
Road Maintenance Review 2011
Councillor Alison Hay
COSLA Regeneration & Sustainable Development Spokesperson
Road Maintenance Review 2011
Martin McLaughlin
Ewan Wallace
Context, Scope & Methodology
• Context
• Scope
• Methodology
Change in Traffic
Volumes
Change in road maintenance
spend
Change in purchasing
power
Change in roads in
acceptable condition
Headline Backlog
(£)
Council Roads
+ 4%
(since 2004/05)
+ 22 %
(over last 15 years)
+ 12%
(2004/05 – 2009/10)
- 13%
(due to road maintenance
industry inflation)
- 4%
(from 2005 to 2010)
1.54 billion
(640 million more than in
2004)
Trunk Roads
+ 3%
(since 2004/05)
+ 37%
(over last 15 years)
- 12%
(2004/05 – 2009/10)
- 32%
(due to road maintenance
industry inflation)
- 6%
(from 2006 to 2010)
713 million
(480 million more than
2004)
Audit Scotland Recommendations
Audit Scotland recommendations
• Strategies and plans for adequate prioritisation – greatest contribution to economic growth and improved quality of life
• Collaborative working (resources & partnerships between councils and with the private sector)
• Regular reporting of road condition to elected members and the public
• Benchmarking, improved performance management and reporting
Audit Scotland recommendations
• Data available to allow effective asset management to take place
• Consistency in maintenance backlog calculation
• The SCOTS road asset management project fully deployed
• Adoption of performance indicators developed by SCOTS
• Benchmark road maintenance activities to drive out cost inefficiencies
• A costed model for shared services
• Context
• Scope
• Methodology
Purpose of the Review…
National review on how the road network is managed and
maintained, with a view to stimulating service redesign
and increasing the pace of examining the potential for
shared services
…Purpose of the Review
• How Scottish Government and Local Authorities can work
more collaboratively
• What can be learned from international road management
practice
Scope of Review
Delivering efficiently managed roads for all within
budgets available and identifying opportunities for
innovation, collaborative working and the sharing of
services
• Whole of the road asset and all road users
• Excludes winter service
• Context
• Scope
• Methodology
BASELINEFull deployment
‘Accepted/ standard practice’
eg. 80-100% of road authorities
employ
BEST/GOOD PRACTICE
Partial deployment
eg. up to 50% of road authorities
employ
NOVEL/ INNOVATIVE
DEPLOYMENTPossibly only 1-10% employ
Barriers to wider adoption/ uptake
Cost/ resources/ skills/ risk..?
Innovators/ producers
Route to market/ trials/ barriers/ risks..?
Methodology
Phase 1 (March-June)
Evidence gathering & option generation
Stakeholder event (June)
Emerging findings & options
Phase 2 (July-Sept)
Option analysis & appraisal
Roads Summit (Oct 2011)
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Donald Bell, Director, Halcrow
Emerging Findings
What the public see
What’s underneath
Standards
Asset Management
Prioritisation
Funding mechanisms
New materials
Health & Safety
Delivery models
What I will cover
• Road maintenance
• Three working groups
• Asset management and standards
• Technology & productivity innovation
• Resourcing
• Emerging themes
Road maintenance
• Why?
Road maintenance
• Who does it benefit?
Road maintenance
• Who does it involve?
What I will cover
• Road maintenance
• Three working groups
• Asset management and standards
• Technology & productivity innovation
• Resourcing
• Emerging themes
Three Working Groups each looked at….
Baseline
Best Practice
Innovation
Asset Management & Standards
• What you have
• What you need to do
• When you need to do it
• How you do it
Asset Management & Standards
• Local authorities –
“…plan in place no later
than the end of 2011…”
• Transport Scotland –
“...adequate prioritisation
[given to routes contributing
to] …greatest economic
growth”
Asset Management & Standards – State of play
• Adherence to standards to minimise risk.
• Developing Codes of Practice - new materials and processes.
• Older standards may be slowing best practice and innovations.
• Asset Management Plans deliver value – the sector needs to implement these. Transport Scotland and 30 of 32 Scottish local authorities have a Road Asset Management Plan in place.
• Industry KPIs need to be outcome focused.
• Communication challenges:
• Increasing competition to retain current share of diminishing budgets
• Increasing frustration from road users affected by deterioration of the road.
Asset Management & Standards - Questions
• What factors are most important when prioritising spend on
assets for the benefit of all road users?
• How should spend be apportioned between different elements -
roads, footways, lighting, traffic lights, etc.
• What, if any, reduction in standards or level of service is
acceptable within reduced budgets?
• How can we better communicate issues and benefits?
• What needs to be done to deliver transformational
change?
Technology & Productivity Innovation
• Can we do it better?
Technology & Productivity Innovation
• Transport Scotland and
local authorities should
“work together…
…achieving more with the
resources currently
available”
Technology & Productivity Innovation – State of Play
• Innovation, research and development is predominantly undertaken by the private sector.
• Examples of public sector organisations working together, and with their supply chains, to develop new materials, tools and techniques.
• New and innovative techniques are being developed, BUT new materials and techniques have to be trialled across all roads authorities.
• The use of Lean techniques is limited. Where they have been used, there has been success in improving the quality and efficiency of services.
• No apparent strategy within the sector on research and development.
• Development and use of new ideas, techniques and materials can be inconsistent.
Technology & Productivity Innovation - Questions
• Are there examples from other key sectors that we can learn
from, where innovation is supported at the heart of the sector?
• What types of structures would be required to support greater
access to innovation/ access to the market to deliver better
outcomes for all road users?
• How do successful productivity improvements in the road
maintenance sector become more widely adopted?
• What needs to be done to deliver transformational change?
Resourcing
• How it is set up
Resourcing
• Transport Scotland and
local authorities should
explore
“…new ways of working,
such as service
reconfiguration, pooling
and flexible use of
resources and
partnerships between
councils and with the
private sector ”
Resourcing – State of Play
• Public sector procurement is governed by European legislation.
• Management arrangements follow traditional lines
– local or central government fund the work, which is carried out
in-house, or put out to tender.
• Sharing of road maintenance services is not widespread, but is
expanding.
• Given the Audit Scotland recommendations, there is a case for all
roads authorities to examine who they can work together with to
deliver a better service.
Resourcing - Questions
• What scope is there for different delivery models to maximise efficiencies whilst maintaining quality maintenance services?
• How can we utilise procurement or contract mechanisms to drive savings and benefits for all road users?
• What are the barriers to more shared services and collaboration and how might these be overcome?
• Are there alternative, or new, funding models to either
• deliver access to new streams of funding or
• to create better value for money?
• What needs to be done to deliver transformational change?
What I will cover
• Road maintenance
• Three working groups
• Asset management and standards
• Technology & productivity innovation
• Resourcing
• Emerging themes
Findings – Emerging Themes
Asset Management & Standards
Technology & Productivity Innovation
Resourcing
Effective Asset Management
Prioritisation
Benchmarking & Monitoring
Delivery Models
Incentivising Innovation
Enabling Faster Change
Communication
The BIG questions
• How do we take themes
forward?
• Will they deliver
transformational change?
• What else needs to be
considered?
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Facilitated Working Group Sessions
Introduction
Professor Malcolm Horner
• Scope
• Evidence base
• Emerging options
• Gaps
Resourcing
Economic Issues,
Impacts, Costs & Benefits
Technology & Productivity Innovation
Standards & Prioritisation
(Asset Management)
National Roads
Maintenance Review
Evidence
Best Practice
Innovation
Baseline
Scope
Full deployment
‘Accepted/ standard practice’
eg. 80-100% of road authorities employ
Partial deployment
‘Best practice’
eg. up to 50% of road authorities employ
Novel/ innovative deployment
Possibly only 1-10% employ
How do we move more efficiently through the pipeline towards standard/ accepted practice…?
Barriers to wider adoption/ uptake
Cost/ resources/ skills/ risk..?
Innovators/ producers
Route to market/ trials/ barriers/ risks..?
Evidence Base
• Review Working Group input & feedback
• SCOTS/ Transport Scotland reports & papers
• Audit Scotland/ Audit Commission reports & data
• UK case study exampleseg. Highways Agency, County Councils, Water Sector, DfT - Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme (HMEP)
• International case studies & benchmarking reports
• Web resources
• Topical expert input
Emerging Options
• Preliminary options developed by Working Groups
• Examples to support discussion for facilitated
sessions
• Stakeholder options
• Post-event shortlist for appraisal
Gaps
• Feedback on gaps/ additional issues
• Facilitated sessions
• Post-event feedback
• Deadline– 11th July
Facilitated Working Group Sessions
Technology & Productivity
Innovation
Scott II
Facilitator:
Professor Malcolm HornerUniversity of Dundee
Standards & Prioritisation
(Asset Management)
Scott I
Facilitator:
Mike BordissIndependent Consultant
Resourcing
Burns Suite
Facilitator:
Emma LangmanProgression Partnership
Wider Economic Issues, Impacts,
Costs & Benefits
Caledonian
Facilitator:
Professor Iain DochertyUniversity of Glasgow
Lunch Break
12:40-1:15pm
Exhibition Viewing In the Lounge
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Coffee Break – 2:15 pm
Back in Caledonian Suite - 2:30pm
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High Level Summary Reports Back to Plenary
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Wider Economic Issues, Impacts, Costs & Benefits
Professor Iain Docherty
Stakeholder Session OptionsWider Economic Issues, Impacts, Costs & Benefits
ARE WE HAVING A GOOD CRISIS?•No consensus•Whose Standards?•Prepared to let standards fall?•Taxation/hypothecation•Democratic Failure?•Those who cause damage pay•No clear evidence re: outcomes•More funding!
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Resourcing
Emma Langman
• Different Delivery Models: – revenue funded road maintenance with consistent budget, shared services among smaller local
authorities, LLP, PPP and MAC, cross boundary working
• Procurement or Contract Mechanisms: – outcome based contracts, standardisation road only procurement, standardised long-term
contracts to maximise efficiencies and justify set-up costs. Term maintenance contracts joint TS and LA. Performance-based incentives.
• Barriers to shared services: - political and legislative barriers, clear objectives,
• Alternative funding models: - charging utilities for failures and occupation, re-introduce ring-fencing roads maintenance budgets,
flexibility on annualised budgets. Horizontal integration of services.
• Deliver Transformational Change: - political will, positive political buy-in is fundamental, supported by clear direction and strong
management, stable long term budgeting, collaboration
Stakeholder Session Options Resourcing
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Standards & Prioritisation
Mike Bordiss
Stakeholder Session OptionsStandards & Prioritisation (Asset Management)
• Communication - engaging with all road users on levels of service
• Communication - politicians on budget scenarios to meet
levels of service options
• Commonality of asset management themes and objectives
• Long term view of road maintenance v. political cycles
• Localism (eg potholes) v. asset management prioritisation
• Standards – difficulty in convincing standard owners to change
• Climate change adaption and mitigation
• Redefine backlog to reflect chosen state of roads not perfect
• Wider issues - street lighting against crime; NHS costs
• View as community asset not a liability
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Technology & Productivity Innovation
Professor Malcolm Horner
Stakeholder Session Options Technology & Productivity Innovation
Key Points
Programming and coordination of works
• Utilities and reinstatements
• Annualised budgets
• Standardising protocols
• Identifying and coordinating a proactive research agenda
• Accessibility for all / use of voluntary groups to advise
• Incentivisation for innovation
• Appropriateness of current standards
• Effective communication
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Question & Answer Session For Plenary
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Closing Remarks
Ewan Wallace, SCOTS