1. Austroads Data Standard – Adoption Considerations

2. Austroads Data Standard – What is it?

3. Objectives of Data Standard Implementation
Improved net benefit from maintenance activities
Improved net benefit from capacity expansion activities
Improved ability to leverage heavy vehicle road reform benefits
Lower data collection costs
Lower operational costs for governments - e.g. training costs
Improved ability to leverage new technologies
Why Harmonise
Staged, incremental benefits
Focus on high benefit low cost data items
Maintenance related information prioritised
Align / rationalise government reporting
Architecture to support reporting and benchmarking
Harmonisation Approach

4. Benefits – Business Case
Draft Business Case indicating benefits from adoption of the Data Standard
BAU – (publish standard only) creates little net benefit
Three Implementation options tested.
Preferred option (3) involves adoption ‘maintenance’ related subsets and developing tools to share, analyse and collaborate.
Tested against ‘possible scenarios’ of future reform – road classification harmonisation, heavy vehicle road reform.
Benefits increase with increasing road manager uptake
Standard designed to help set up data collection needs for heavy vehicle road reform

5. Stage Adoption
Data Standard serves to guide asset management maturity across the sector.
Much of the benefits from harmonising small subset of ‘maintenance’ benchmarking related data.
Proposing road managers only harmonise portion of subsets currently being collected.

6. Sophistication Indicator
Subsets Sketch
Priority Data Sets
Metric Report
Asset Management
Sophistication Indicator S1 S2 S3

7. Maintenance Benefit Mechanisms

8. Comparing maintenance strategies
A range of factors that influence the magnitude of maintenance costs.
For example, adjusting a maintenance strategy might consist of:
altering the mix of routine, periodic and rehabilitation works
altering the timing of works
altering the type of pavement materials
The Data Standard enables comparison of maintenance activities across road managers as the Priority Data Set of the Data Standard records data on the timing, nature and reason for maintenance works.

9. Supporting Reform
National reform seeking to improve road charges and service standards
Involves developing a working model forward looking cost-base
Parallel projects also developing information to support heavy vehicle related service standards
Data Standard – will describe relevant aspects for charges and service standards

10. Information Architecture.

11. Knowledge and Analytical Platform Opportunities

12. Analytical Tools National level analysis Regional level analysis
Shared platforms
Ease of reporting opportunities

13. Initial Actions Develop Pilots – road test the subsets
Scope national/regional level knowledge platform and tools
Develop standard process documents for data collection
Consult on Benchmarking metrics
Align Reporting Requirements
Develop and maintain the data standard

14. Opportunities for Collaboration
Input into Data Standard
working groups on specialist areas
Regional / local level pilots
utilising priority data sets of the Data Standard
Inform project about current reporting requirements
advise us on your current reporting requirements
opportunities to streamline reporting process