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Framework for the implementation of Road Asset Management System
An integrated and holistic approach to road management is required to adequately align funding, management systems, and procedural implementation. To do so, stakeholders can leverage the Road Asset Management System (RAMS), a powerful tool to define and achieve optimum road conservation.
RAMS is construed as systematic management for maintaining, upgrading, and operating road assets, combining engineering principles with sound business practice and economic rationale. It includes specific digital and analysis tools to facilitate a more organised and flexible decision-making process.
The benefits of implementing RAMS ranges between the better allocation of resources and the reduction of social costs, though it also is essential to highlight that these benefits have an impact across all road sector stakeholders:
This paper presents the four steps for Road Asset Management System implementation (objectives and scopes, organisational alignment, RAMP for implementation and operations-systems, tools, and processes) and serves as an explanatory guide for managing road assets rationally and profitably
