• HOME
• CONTACT
• ABOUT
• POLICY
• SUBMISSIONS
• PUBLICATIONS
• NEWSROOM
• EVENTS
• SUBSCRIBE
• LINKS
• SEARCH

National Local Roads Congress 2002

State association round up - Victoria

Contents

• MAV asset management benchmarking study
• Auditor-general's Report
• Nonfeasance
• Arterial Road management
• R2R framework
• R2R framework
• MAV Step AM program
• Auslink
• What does it all mean?

Victoria

• NEIER report - Ad hoc road funding methodology
• R2R funding
  • Where is it going?
  • Is it making a difference?
  • Impact on the network?
  • Post 2005??

MAV asset management benchmarking study

• 70 Councils
• Self assessment of internal processes
• Best Appropriate Practice identified
• Victoria behind
• Wide variety of performance

Auditor-general's Report

• 9 Councils assessed: road assets
• Current LG practices do not meet accepted best appropriate practice..the sector is unable to determine the overall condition of road assets or whether they will reach their optimised useful lives
• None of the 9 Councils had established high quality AM plans that showed stakeholders the current cost of providing road services and the cost of sustaining that service in the long term
• The Grants Commission should require Councils to provide it with data on the age and economic life of their road assets

Nonfeasance

• State Discussion paper:
  • removal of immunity
  • Road Standards Act
• LG submission to State Govt
  • sector does not support removal of immunity
  • context of LT financial position of LG
• Legislation?

Arterial Road management

• Lack of clarity re responsibility
• VicRoads to be responsible for all arterial roads
• Boundaries to be defined & hierarchy clarified

R2R framework

• Statewide reporting framework
  • Financial
  • Works
  • Benefits
    • Classification
    • Case studies
    • Community satisfaction feedback
    • Road condition info & extrapolation
• Provide answers
  • Is program effective?
  • Is it making a difference?
  • What is happening to the overall condition of the network?

MAV Step AM program

• 60 Councils involved
• 2 year mentoring program
• National linkages/frameworks
• Consortium of consultants
• Minimum process standards to be established
• Regional groupings

Auslink

• Step: internal AM processes
  • demonstrable compliance (nonfeasance)
  • Common framework
  • Feed into >
• Auslink: regional AM priorities
  • Integrated transport (not roads)
  • State & LG partnership
  • The way of the future

What does it all mean?

• AM now high priority
• Heaps of change
• LG needs to get its act together
  • National approach re AM
  • States need to improve communication
• Support for Auslink philosophy